Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forebears, he was educated in Vladivostok and made his career the winning of China for Communism and the Soviet. He went to China in 1923 to negotiate a Chinese-Soviet treaty of recognition and agreement. Accepted as Ambassador at Peking in 1924 he worked hard for two years to accomplish his dream. Brilliant talker, genial host, Leo Karakhan is also one of the few athletic Soviet leaders: he plays first-rate tennis. His house in Peiping became a meeting place for the intelligentsia of north China. He picked the growing Nationalist movement as the coming power in China, gave...
...money will, on the average, be able to repay that money in the same kind of dollar which they borrowed. . . . We seek to correct a wrong and not create another wrong in the opposite direction. . . . These powers will be used when, as and if it may be necessary to accomplish the purpose." President Roosevelt reported conditions "a little better than they were two months ago," with industry picking up. freight traffic increasing, farm prices improving. But, he warned, "I am not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of overenthusiastic assurance. We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity." A sensible optimist...
...size, but it is neither depressed nor dreary. Most of its inhabitants came to make a fortune, stayed to enjoy life. Said one old sourdough: ''My God. the time runs away to nothing. Ain't it a corker the way time goes? You can't accomplish anything before you're ready to be buried." Marshall persuaded most Koyukukers to take the Stanford-Binet intelligence test, found them by & large the most intelligent people he had ever known. The ''very superior" class was four times as large as among normal U. S. citizens. Popular...
...wider development and more frequent manifestation on both sides of the Atlantic of the spirit that prompted this thoughtful and graceful gesture would accomplish more toward peace and goodwill than many Leagues and Conferences...
Philosophy A gathers its enrollment from two classes of students. One class has not the vaguest conception of what philosophy is, or intends to accomplish, either before or after taking the course. This class is largely composed of those who fear the mournful numbers of mathematics in the matter of taking off the mathematics requirement, and five into the depths of philosophy in full retreat. The other class is composed of those who are either concentrating in Philosophy or Psychology or else are eager to gain an introduction to Philosophy by the historical method. This class generally leaves the course...