Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moses, mountain, chief and head of Past Tample, thank Pharaoh Hiachepsat for having drawn me out of the Nile and helped me to attain high dignities." This is the grand message, the revelation of the Hebrew lawgiver, Moses, according to one scholarly gentleman. According to another it is bunk drivel. The question, therefore, like the sword of Damocles, remains suspended...
Asked whether college men attain unusual successes on the stage, he replied, "College men as actors are, as a rule, remarkably successful at football. No, I have noticed few college men do anything sensational in dramatics. Schools of dramatic art an universities are fine for the student's amusement, but I'm convinced that they cannot manufacture actors. Nothing can give a man what he must have to be a good comedian, for example. A comedian to be successful must be intensely sincere. He is not an actor, he is a comedian. He must have comedy and laughter...
...which, though granted tentatively by a liberal faculty, must still be regarded as no more than an assumption: namely, that students actually have some understanding of the ends toward which their education is directed, and, moreover, that they possess some faculty for sound criticism of the means employed to attain those ends...
...Shaw, famed vegetarian, has frequently reminded his readers with asperity that geese must be fastened to a board and forcibly fed for some time, in order that their livers may attain the size and lusciousness requisite for the creation of this superb liver-paste...
...second factor is going to be increased speed. The coming car of exclusive character, Chrysler declares, will have 100 horsepower and be able to attain speeds up to 90 miles an hour for sustained intervals without overheating. Combined with this increased speed will be greater riding comfort...