Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Future Wars can set in motion the latent forces that will smash the twin idols of patriotism and privilege too long worshipped in this country, their service will have been a real one. The college students of today form the electorate of tomorrow, and what they hope to accomplish now by ridicule may be done later with stronger weapons...
...have just been reading in TIME [March 16] of disclosures of wholesale "pillage" of telegrams by the Black Committee of the Senate. This committee seems to be just a bunch of Paul Prys and Peeping Toms, and not hesitating at any illegality to accomplish its snooping ends, which seem to be just political blackmail of those who dare criticize the new deal. I am writing North Carolina Senators suggesting expulsion from the Senate of Senator Black for his outrageous violation of the Constitution he was sworn to uphold. I am also writing my Representative in Congress suggesting investigation...
...company of this sort, with economic considerations always in the foreground, necessarily there must be the problem of what precisely it wants to accomplish. Whether grace is their goal, or technique, or a compromise, still the goal must be decide upon. One has the feeling that the Hollywood Ballet has not yet settled this question. That is until their final number, "Hollywood", is given. Then one sees that what they really aim for is such a goal as this. With Ferde Grofe's solidly written music as a background, this dance, a satire on motion pictures, is something that...
...practical symbol of better life. . . ." ¶Two and a half years ago Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman was given the job of working out means by which railroads could cooperate to save themselves and the public money. Before his job expires next June, he is anxious to accomplish an annual saving of $18,000,000 by consolidating railway terminals in eleven cities. Alarmed that men might be thrown out of work, Labor objected, argued for two months with the roads, got a bill introduced in Congress to prevent the discharge of trainmen and place other restrictions on the consolidations...
...squash team, some of whose members were young enough to be her daughters, is no more than an incident in a sporting career which, since it became altogether legendary years ago, can only be viewed in its current phases as a promise of what she may be expected to accomplish in the future...