Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan will not change. Neither will the West, which feels as justified by logic in its position as a man 'talking reason' with a high-strung woman. . . . Nippon, the most feminine-minded nation, may yet accomplish what Alexander, Caesar, Genghiz, Charlemagne, Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm II failed to accomplish." Far Eastern Front by Edgar Snow (Smith & Haas, $3.75) "A visit to India, to Japan, to the Philippines, leaves you suddenly with the conviction that in many obscure but important ways the Chinese people are far in advance of Eastern men elsewhere, and that in them ultimately and inevitably...
...result of long, painstaking study of thousands & thousands of children in Berlin, Yankton, S. Dak. and Baltimore, Dr. Kanner decided that the cause of a child's misbehavior is more fundamental and important than the way that child misbehaves. By isolating the cause he can accomplish a cure in most cases and ameliorate the child's condition in all cases. He classifies such causes in three broad groups: 1) those due to physical illness; 2) those due to involuntary dysfunction of some organ of the child's body; 3) those due to derangement of the child's body & soul...
...Freshman Report also raised the question of whether it was necessary to make English A-1 such an elementary course. Couldn't it accomplish its object of teaching men to write their mother tongue in a fairly accurate and facile manner amid more grown-up surroundings. After all, no Freshman is expected to be a complete dolt...
Exactly how Women Investors, Inc. was going to accomplish all this, it would not say last week. It was not going to give investment advice to women.* It was not going to conduct a woman's lobby in Washington, at least for the present. But it was going after membership. Proof of this fact was the Organizing Committee whose most prominent member is Mrs. Hortense Odium, president of Manhattan's Bonwit, Teller & Co. (clothes), wife of Investment Truster Floyd B. Odium of Atlas Corp. Legal counsellor is Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield, New York attorney and onetime suffragette. National...
...Introduction: In all chemistry courses it has been found that a student, working carefully, is unable to accomplish the required amount of laboratory work in the allotted time. The following figures testify to the wide gap that exists: Stated Required Time Necessary Time for Careful Work Chem. A 3 hrs. 3 1/2-4 hrs. Chem. B 3 hrs. 5 hrs. Chem. 33 Not stated 3 1/2-4...