Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once, but it went back to the hills with its tail twisted into knots to the tune of 35-0. This year a team admittedly inferior to the last one is coming to Harvard with no illusions about the task ahead of it, and consequently is more likely to accomplish something...
...order to accomplish this, however, he would have to win 11 doubtful states and eight normally Republican states. The results of the Congressional and gubernatorial elections of 1930 show that a swing to the Democratic Party is not improbable in this region. Colorado turned in that direction by electing its governor and a senator from that party...
There is another method which does not impose so severe a test of academic virtue, but which may accomplish much. That is, to substitute some other sport for football that will bring just as much revenue into the college chest while not exacting the tell in young lives and lowered college ideals for which football is now, in large measure, responsible. For the cost of commercialized football is to be reckoned, not only in the present, but in the future lives of young men whose ideals of the intellectual life have been shaped under its influence. Boys start...
...Chief of Staff and both times he was wrong. The first of these was the Siberian Expedition; the other sending troops to northern Russia. ... I opposed at all times the slightest diversion of our troops [from France]. . . . [the result was] the complete failure of these expeditions to accomplish anything...
...represented as extremely reluctant to leave Manila, Governor General Roosevelt an nounced Aug. 22: "Circumstances have made it necessary for me to return for a brief period to the United States. . . . I shall start for the Philippines again the first week in November. . While there I hope I can accomplish something." The Republican Speakers' Bureau made plans to use him "to the fullest...