Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, while this confusion leaves you with a garbled ideas of what you have seen, it is the very element which gives the picture whatever dramatic value it possesses. Steady continuity of over-tenseness cannot help but often attain startling emotional peaks...
...economic adventures. For good or ill, 1944 is likely to leave a permanent impression on the course of American affairs because it was the year in which each of four short documents (the longest of them only 48 printed pages) attempted to trace an outline* of means to attain permanent full employment. All four of the proposals, two from the U.S., two from Britain, acknowledged implicitly or explicitly a revolution in economic thinking that has been in progress since the depression: the belief that the state-and only the state-can create conditions in which productivity and the standard...
...Patriotic, Avoid Friction." To some, the final insult to Negro pride is the appearance of the European refugee, who is free to vote, eat where he wishes, and attain full citizenship, while the native-born Negro, often of old U.S. stock, must remain a semi outcast...
...after his Presidential defeat because I feared the ridicule of those who believed him to be a political clown. At least I had the redeeming grace to read, enjoy and tell others about his One World. When a majority of Americans reach Willkie's patriotic stature, America will finally attain true greatness...
...M.P.H. Harper's group figures that the 240,000-mile trip to the moon would take only 48 hours; in the celestial vacuum their ship would attain a speed of 20,000 m.p.h. Their vehicle, probably using liquid oxygen and gasoline for fuel, would be propelled by a series of rockets whose shells could be jettisoned as they were used up; the ship would eventually weigh less than a tenth of its take-off weight. Passengers would be protected against acceleration effects by springy hammocks, against extreme heat & cold by rotation of the ship's outer shell...