Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to prison. When the waves subside, one group of survivors, lashed to a tree, is bobbing on the waves. Another has weathered the blow in a beached lifeboat in which, while the hurricane raged, a child was somehow born. Madame de Laage shows what good breeding can accomplish by surviving the worst storm in cinema history without spoiling her light dress or losing the wave in her hair. She ends in the arms of her husband who, grateful, decides not to persecute Terangi further...
Phillips Brooks House, ever in a bustle of activity, has commenced a new plan for bringing Harvard into contact with the outside world, and in so doing they are adding to the already very creditable list of valuable works which they accomplish every year with flying colors...
...current squabble between Boss and Governor was fired by Boss Crump. Said he when he first heard about the unit plan: "The Sneak has the insane desire to go to the United States Senate. He would milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence to accomplish that purpose...
...hand-maiden, the capital gains tax. The first, by destroying all hope of building up a reserve fund on which to count in less prosperous days, has done more than its share in causing lack of confidence and bringing on the present recession. Both taxes together have accomplished just what the lone band of opponents in Congress said they would accomplish: they have frightened capital away from investment in industry to investment in tax exempt securities, they have retarded greatly the development of new industries and expansion to old, and they have darkened the future by extinguishing all confidence...
...Quevedo lectured sitting and .lolling on a table, and as always, called his listeners "darlings." So amiable, so vigorously sincere was Dr. de Quevedo's platform style, that his middle-aged female audience seemed well satisfied with the content of his message-mainly that will power can accomplish anything. Dr. de Quevedo's rules for developing will power: 1) "Go out of your way to look for responsibilities. 2) Console yourself while employed in menial labor with thoughts of the reward to come (Eternal Life). 3) Do something every day that you don't want...