Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a reorganization requires the development of the junior colleges which are at present "ambiguous in aim and unsatisfactory in organization." All they accomplish now is to "keep young people from doing things that would be worse for them." However "housing is not an educational ideal...
...everyone who can accomplish his purpose by taking a vacation and keeping his mouth shut...
...first session, the 75th Congress' most important achievement was the negative one of defeating the President's Court plan. What it would accomplish in its less promising second session was still unpredictable last week but two things at least looked certain. One was that under the stimulus of Recession, Congress was likely to show an independence toward the White House unprecedented since 1933. The other was that Vice President John Nance Garner in the Senate and Speaker William Brockman Bankhead in the House were going to have their hands full making Congress do much of anything before...
...chance to hear two speeches ably marshaling the grievances of Business. As alert as a college debater, the Secretary thoughtfully pursed his lips while Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd ("We might carry out the Democratic platform") and Morgan Partner S. Parker Gilbert ("Nothing would accomplish more . . . than the repeal of the undistributed profits tax") proceeded to needle the New Deal's fiscal policy...
...Princeton game Yale disregarded the mud and wind to roll over the Tigers for 300 yards without throwing a forward pass. Frank scored on the first play to become the first Big Three player to accomplish that feat in a Yale-Harvard-Princeton fame...