Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closing Professor Moore remarked that Horace's ideal was "perfection, in so far as man is able to attain perfection...
...when a board of line officers got together to formulate their specifications for an ideal caterpillar tractor for divisional artillery, the highest speed pictured in their most optimistic dreams was twelve miles an hour. In the meantime, the Holt Manufacturing Co. has already produced an ordnance tractor that can attain a speed of 30 miles an hour and can negotiate a 45-degree slope without difficulty. Incidentally, it can be driven submerged in water up to the driver's chin...
...learned the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fascinating life of the 'Little White House.' . . . Not even during its prominence as a political stronghold throughout the Civil War did this celebrated old Taylor Mansion on Jackson Place attain the distinction that came to it through Mark Hanna's famous country sausage and pancake breakfasts. It has been said that hospitality often masked political batteries...
With such a situation existing it is scarcely encouraging to realize that the feeling for exclusiveness is still basic and determining--that the average undergraduate still believes that he can attain distinction for himself by extinction of others...
...generally conceded that colleges exist for education, the question becomes one of method. Will that education be given or attained? If given, how, and by whom? As long as a college degree was regarded as a mark of social distinction it was perhaps only laudable that educators should do their best to couple with it some forcible education. To such an idea, perhaps is due the present regulated and restricted method of imparting education. But for the future something else must be devised a system which based on the assumption that students are really seeking education, will allow educational facilities...