Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator: Indeed, yes. Our "scarcity" does not come from "locusts." It comes partially from drought-and more generally from your Secretary Henry Wallace. . . . The platform upon which you were elected said (I quote): "We advocate an immediate drastic reduction of Governmental expenditures . . . to accomplish a saving of not less than 25% in the cost of Federal Government." And what...
...really first-rate Bierman product, each man concentrates solely on his job with complete confidence that the other ten will accomplish theirs to perfection. This year's team sometimes betrays its greenness when the interference looks back to see if the man with the ball is still on his way. It contains only three or four All-America prospects. Wilkinson, who played guard last year, is one. Julius Alfonse, who did not play last year, and his co-captain, Tackle Ed Widseth, are others. Minnesota's likeliest halfbacks this year are a pair who, because they played together...
Merely to have been in 1,800 baseball games in succession is twice as much as any current big leaguer has been able to accomplish but what is far more remarkable in Gehrig's case is what he has done in them. In eleven years he has never had a season's batting average of less than .300. He has led his league in batting once, in home runs three times, in batting in runs five times. He has hit three home runs in one game three times and once he hit four. Last week, for the fourth...
...same, especially editors, preachers, radio speakers and the directors of movies, all of whom exercise a far more direct and potentially corrosive influence on public opinion. But as now applied the oaths inevitably reflect upon the character of the teaching profession. Moreover, their sponsors can hardly hope thus to accomplish their real purpose, for supposing that rarest of animals, a disloyal teacher, no oath is going to prevent his making his real views felt...
...Stadium, a lean, barrel-chested young man from Auburn, Ind. last week made himself the most talked about athlete in the U. S. The young man was Donald Ray Lash, 22-year-old junior at Indiana University. What made the feat remarkable was the time it took him to accomplish...