Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chile break the peace which they have sworn to maintain at the feet of Christ the Redeemer" As a bearer-of-goodwill from the U. S. approached the Cumbre, in the Christmas season, on the southernmost swing of his South American pilgrimage, the lofty Andean Christ seemed to attain a new significance, perhaps: "Peace on high, goodwill to continents...
...November reckoning averaged B or better may exercise the Dean's List privilege in regard to the extension of their Christmas holidays. This step is both wise and timely. It recognizes and removes the stigma of illegality from what has been a common practice among men who did not attain official Dean's List ranking at the January or June times of demarcation, but raised the record of their scholastic progress to the required level at November...
...editorial "Phi Beta Kappa Selections", you mention "the failure of many Phi Beta Kappa men elected on the basis of course grades, to attain more than a general or special cum at graduation." Failure to attain (if you really want to go so far as to call it all that) a special cum may indicate either incompetence on the part of the Phi Beta Kappa man, or a sudden fatigue of academic honors. There is, however, no failure at all about obtaining a general cum, that implying rather a complete unwillingness to be tutored and specialized to the extent that...
...left hand side of the stairway the same article goes on to say, "The group is a powerful and unifled statement of emotion and action, and in design builds up most effectively, giving the feeling in its upward trend that the soldier will win his fight and attain the height of glory...
Buddha tossed aside wealth and temporal power that he might attain victory over old age, death, disease, sorrow. His inheritance was the ancient Vedantic philosophy (man is soul, and has a body that must be subjugated); his contribution was the forging of the middle way between pleasure and self-mortification by which man ascends the Mount of Vision. Confucius, Ancient Teacher, Perfect Sage, "has river eyes and a dragon fore head ... his arms are long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy...