Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasis on music can not expect to develop an orchestra of professional standing, but the Pierian should be capable of maintaining sufficiently high standards to enable it to command the attention of all those interested in instrumental work. At the moment there is a determined effort being made to accomplish this, but the orchestra must have outside support in order to carry its program through...
...delighted," telegraphed Mr. Henderson and M. Briand publicly to Signor Grandi. "With you we congratulate ourselves." In England the honest broking at Rome was widely hailed as the prime achievement of the Labor Government since the London Conference-Scot MacDonald and his cabinet having failed to accomplish nearly everything they have attempted since. In France, however, nearly the whole Press took a show-me attitude. French bankers prepared to loan Italy...
...depends on the descriptions of those who have been personally acquainted with the bishop, on the numerous biographies, and on the few existing photographs. In this way he feels that he can create an intimacy with his subject which a mere following of the various existing portraits could not accomplish...
...Edward Channing, professor emeritus of history at Harvard, son of two Emersonian Transcendentalists, Poet William Ellery Channing and Ellen K. Fuller. He had written so feverishly in order to accomplish what no man ever had done before: to complete a scholarly history of the U. S., a thoroughgoing picture of the lives and times of all North American colonists and U. S. citizens from Norsemen to Hoover. That this was no easy task he had set himself may be judged by the failure at it or despair of it entertained by his best predecessors and colleagues. Statesman George Bancroft...
Sometimes with blandishments, sometimes with academic Baumes Law, academic Jones Laws, and the like, the universities keep multiplying their mainly futile attempts to dissolve or break down his resistance. At Rollins College we abolish the motive for it. This we accomplish by prohibiting recitations, prohibiting lectures, and to a large extent making the professors the servants, rather than the masters, of the students. Though a fine sense of bigness results from defying a master, what possible exhilaration is there in defying a servant...