Word: attainability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's brilliant political career reached its zenith on Nov. 8, 1960, the day on which he was elected the thirty-fifth President of the United States. He became then the sixth Harvard alumous to attain, the office...
...special field. He received his bachelor's degree with distinction in 1890 and was one of the six Commencement speakers; the subject of his address was Jefferson Davis. His fellowship was renewed and he continued his studies at the Graduate School. In 1892 he became the first Negro to attain the degree of Ph.D. at Harvard...
...campaign does not attain its goal by Nov. 6, it will probably move to the campuses of neighboring schools, beginning with Brandeis...
...have been reminded several times that there are organizations on our campus which have "catch" phrases to legalize them and yet which can attain pure exclusiveness. The members of our Association refuse entirely to recognize such fine distinctions. A group is either discriminatory (on certain reprehensible grounds) or it is not. Such discrimination concealed under a ruse is still discrimination. It is even more than that, for is also hypocritical and criminal...
...Help! Help!" Not the "healthy-minded," but the "sick souls" of the world are the founders of religion; those who have a "pathological melancholy" and turn in their despair to a higher power for help-to God or to nature or to an "ideal essence." Once converted, they "attain an altogether new level of spiritual vitality, a relatively heroic level in which impossible things have become possible and new energies and endurances are shown...