Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since conditions in the ionosphere are changing constantly it is necessary to take continuous observations over long periods of time in order to obtain representative records. This is difficult to accomplish by manual means except at prohibitive cost. For this reason, Dr. H. R. Mimno of the Graduate School of Engineering, developed special automatic devices to be used for the control of the Cruft Laboratory ionosphere research station. By means of these devices, records can be obtained without the attendance of an operator...
...merit proved, men interested in the esthetic side of music and would-be Freshman concentrators will be attracted next fall but repulsed at once because of the cut. One Professor and assistant to handle 125 men, let alone the present number of 300 is a task impossible to accomplish if any teaching standard is to be kept. Aside from Music 1, there is an insufficient amount of courses for concentrators and graduate students, so much has the staff been curtailed...
...made us particularly hot under the collar was the chief's implication that the Court caused the Mississippi flood. That would be a pretty tall order for even fifteen not-so-old men, and it seems to us the kind of thing that no mortal has been able to accomplish since the signal failure of King Canute, hundreds of years...
Unabashed, Mr. Ashurst now replied: "It is obvious from the record that that is my utterance. The rhetoric alone carries its proof. . . . The man who attempts to be consistent in his public service may end up consistent indeed, but never accomplish anything else...
Better to accomplish this end it was recommended in the Student Council report of 1931 that athletic committees be chosen in each House. One tutor and several captains or managers were to be responsible for providing every House member with whatever facilities he desired. Coordination between the seven units was to be supplied by an inter-House athletic committee. The H.A.A. was merely asked, for convenience sake, to provide a secretary for this committee to settle conflicts over the use of buildings, Varsity and House schedules, and other details...