Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Health Hostels. Lord Dawson called attention to a much neglected type of sick man. His doctor may have prescribed for his defects. But, noted Lord Dawson, "the mere giving of medicines will often accomplish but little. What the patient wants is regimen and re-education in methods of living; treatment, it may be by diet, physicotherapy. and relaxation under controlled observation. Such treatment or education of the man and his tissues might take several weeks, and in most instances it would be advantageous for such patients to continue their ordinary avocations. We need a new type of institution?distinct from...
Interviewed by U. S. citizens last week Prime Minister Benito Mussolini said: ¶"To me birth control is a crime." (Il Duce has two daughters, three sons.) ¶"Prohibition itself can accomplish nothing. I myself closed 25,000 superfluous wine shops throughout Italy in one year. Moderation is the thing! More good can be done by providing people with good beer and wine and by discouraging cocktails and whiskey than by prohibition...
...chief subsidiary of National Electric Power. In receivership a fortnight ago, the company sought to have its five Manhattan banks (Chase National Bank, Central Hanover Bank, Manufacturers Trust, New York Trust, Chemical Bank) reach a standstill agreement on their loans of $20,000,000. When the receivers failed to accomplish this they resigned in a huff. The action means that the bulk of the Eastern part of the great utility system has been lopped away, will probably break up. Middle West Utilities is almost certain to lose most of its $40,000,000 investment in the common shares of National...
...material can be put in a vacuum tube the process is comparatively easy. Otherwise the cathode rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything. Dr. Gorton Rosa Fonda exhibited a stubby, 12-in. tube which produces an extraordinary amount of cathode rays in air as a bluish haze around an aluminum window. The device produces 70,000-volt rays from...
...form of the True, the Beautiful and the Good, as approved by philosophers, improved by artists, lived by the saints. To discover about the True, discover Truth's elation, it is necessary for a man to read philosophy, more necessary for him to think philosophically. To accomplish this feat the Abbe suggests that a man try to put himself in Adam's bare feet, look at the world with newborn eyes, try to answer the whys and hows his mind will naturally ask. That is philosophy. Its reward is less in getting questions answered than...