Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laid down five-year plans and ten-year plans. However, I believe that in this country, which has not got a Dictator, we can move further in a shorter period without naming a definite length of time. . . . We have attained much within the past few months, but we cannot accomplish all in a few months...
...anesthetic at the Universities of Toronto and Wisconsin, with favorable results. Cyclopropane is not unpleasant to take, without harmful effects on the heart, less inflammable than other anesthetic gases, as relaxing to the patient as ether. ¶ Oxygen skillfully injected in small quantities under the skin will accomplish almost everything that inhaled oxygen does. A pint of subcutaneous oxygen has the beneficial effects of several hundred gallons of inhaled oxygen. Presuming skill on the part of the doctor, injected oxygen lessens the cost and speeds the efficacy of oxygen therapy in pneumonia, heart disease, asthma, carbuncles, severe infections, deep burns...
...concerned to indulge in renewed and violent protests. These could easily be strengthened by a boycott of the Square garages; men might transfer their patronage to Central Square or elsewhere. Certainly it is by this time evident that nothing but the most vigorous action will accomplish anything, and that this must be done by the students themselves...
Straus on "Fixing." At the Washington hearings, Mr. Percy first asked why the retailers did not submit a simple code which could be put through quickly and which would accomplish precisely what President Roosevelt wanted-raise wages, shorten hours, increase employment. Next he demanded some assurance that there would be labor and consumer representatives on the Retail Code's administrative board and its local committees. Neglect of consumers, he warned, was likely to be disastrous. And then Mr. Percy took a look at the disputed Article VIII: "If retail groups can fix prices at ... cost plus 10%," reasoned...
...success would imply victory, however belated, of one of the great principles of its patron saints. Ramsay MacDonald, professional politician that he is, always shied away when Labour's concretion was mentioned; the trade union heads themselves were weakly unresolved; Bernard Shaw was unable, and Sidney Webb unwilling to accomplish it. The forces of inertia with in the party and the forces of opposition without may stay Sir Charles' hand, but in this event something quite as important would have happened; Labour would be shown up for a toothless dog, fit not for Passfields and Trevelyans...