Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...congratulated on persuading a few members of the Faculty to have their pictures taken again. Unfortunately this policy could not be carried out thoroughly. There are still some photographs of these august persons which apparently were taken shortly after graduation. Something is left for future Photographic Editors to accomplish...
...Mayor Hylan with but one conclusion. There was, the former maintained, a "money super-power" which, although located in America, sought an extension of British trade, to this end it took up its stand behind all writers who were trying to bring England and America together. In order to accomplish this purpose, he argued, the propagandists tried to make the American people sorry that they had revolted, and thus to bring back this country into the British Empire. It was therefore necessary, Mr. Hirshfield explained, for them to alter the popular conception of the Revolution and to make it less...
...mechanism of this scheme appears a trifle unwieldy, and certainly it has its objection. It ought to be possible to accomplish the same results at Harvard in a less laborious fashion. By crowding a little more "welcome" into the two days that now intervene between enrolment and classes, the freshmen can be given much better adjustment than they have had in the past. And the means is at hand--the Student Advisory Committee. With its work well outlined already, and its plans made for immediate action in the autumn the Committee's effectiveness will be infinitely improved. It remains...
...even if this book of suggestions does not prove a means of introducing the millenium, it should accomplish a vast amount of good by diverting creative energy into truly useful channels. If inventors will direct their resourcefulness toward carrying out the sane suggestions in "What's Wanted", they will not only spare themselves much profitless labor, but they will relieve the jammed Patent Offices everywhere. The hordes of perpetual motion machines, trick safety-pins and mechanical dolls that flood these departments represent untold effort by their perpetrators, and no less wasted energy on the part of those who have...
...mentioned the use of corporations and trusts to avoid payment of surtaxes directly, or by dividing income; the division of property among members of the taxpayer's family by gifts inter vivos; the taking of losses on capital investments in such fashion and at such times as to accomplish a maximum reduction of taxable income; the exploitation of certain features of the law such as the provision contained in Section 202 of the Revenue Act of 1921 relating to exchanges of securities; but finally and most important, investment in tax-exempt securities...