Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admire any organized attempt of working men to defend themselves," he stated, "but I doubt if they can accomplish very great results through the organization of labor, even in solving the problems of the working class...
...earth, the emblem of Christianity, as a defiance to a fellow citizen, the Executive of a great State. As far as I am concerned, I would sooner go down to ignominious defeat than be elected to any office in this country if I had to have-if to accomplish it I had to have the support of any group [the Klan] with such perverted ideas about Americanism...
This national intercollegiate organization would accomplish three main purposes. First, it would serve to keep the college Flying Clubs of the country in contact with each other, and as an authority for calling them together for conferences. Second, it would serve as an information bureau to aid in the forming of new clubs, and give advice as to methods of finance and operation. Third, it would serve as a governing body for intercollegiate competition, and would help to spread interest in aviation among the colleges. In general, it would the intercollegiate aeronautics together into a compact form with a permanent...
Honor in the Corps is a personal matter that falls on every member. The word of a cadet is unquestioned, and it must be perfect surely. It is a small thing to report oneself for violations of the Honor Code, for any man may unintentionally fail to accomplish some intention, or overstep his bounds. True the punishment is swift and sure. This is the most cold-blooded place for discipline that the Lord created. But, once over the offence is completely forgotten; wiped...
...BENDA is one of those writers who view the present state of the world with-alarm. His mildest predictions of future disaster foresee the disappearance of higher civilization from the face of the earth. His gloomier fore-boding envisage a universal war sufficiently perfect to accomplish the destruction of the human race itself. Having arrived at these conclusions he then sets out to discover the forces which make them inevitable...