Word: attained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there any reason why the Filipino people should not attain such economic development? Manifestly they lack it today. . . . But the Philippine Islands are today possessed of political connections with the foremost industrial nation in the world...
...practice of self government are found to be most prevalent and firmly held in those communities and nations which have a highly developed system of industry and commerce as their foundation, but it is also true that only in such communities and nations can the average citizen attain the degree of individual comfort, education and culture which modern civilization is coming to demand...
Amanda Lee Beaumont, dean of women at Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va.: "Young women studying to be teachers spend much of their spare time reading up on beauty culture and etiquette in order to attain...
...lacking popular sanction, red tape and the general incompetence of subordinates performing duties of responsibility." The reason for this is "because progressive men anxious to bring about social betterment have not had the patience to work things out through the slow process of State action, but have sought to attain results through the quicker and broader scope of the Federal Government." Whatever our troubles nowadays--"if crops fail, if prices go too high or too low, if men gamble or violate some of the Commandments, if alcohol is abused, if morals become loose" --we go to Congress...
...suspect later found both innocent and dead. The weapons of prohibition agents have taught the country the menace of the armed pursuit of offenders. Both the security of Texas banks and an offective, sensible handling of social enemies are laudable ends, but the means chosen by these bankers to attain them must, at least, be questioned...