Word: attainability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers, none organized in divisions. Plans are afoot to train a reserve force of three infantry divisions, but the men would be returned to civilian life and would be mobilized only in an emergency. Said Ike pointedly as he left: "Great social gains remain for all of us to attain, but they can only be attained in an atmosphere of security." Dutch officials supposed the observation was directed especially at Socialist Premier Willem Drees, who is more interested in social progress than in rearmament...
Final Despair. "Agony," Simone Weil once said, "is the supreme 'dark night' which even the perfect need to attain absolute purity; and to attain that end, it has to be bitter agony." Writes Professor Fiedler: "This is a difficult doctrine in all times and places, and it is especially alien and abhorrent in present-day America where anguish is regarded as vaguely unAmerican, something to be grown out of, or analyzed away, even expunged by censorship; and where certainly we do not look to our churches to preach the uses of affliction. It is consolation, 'peace...
...around this hurdle, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has been developing "gravity propelled" models to be dropped from airplanes high above the earth. They are heavy, bomb-shaped objects which carry experimental wings, tails and control surfaces. During a fall from 40,000 ft., they usually attain speeds above the speed of sound...
...upper half of the class at Harvard College means Group III or better. Men also attain this status when their grades represent 13 points or higher with an A equaling four points, a B three...
Composer Strauss had had more fun, in fact, than most in the slightly baffled audience. But most critics agreed that Capriccio, though a masterpiece of its kind, was too sophisticated ever to attain the popularity of earlier Strauss works...