Word: attained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because they didn't trust each other. In baseball, basketball, and track it has been possible to cooperate. But when they talk of football, when the cold cash of gate receipts is threatened by mutual concessions--then "Some doubt was expressed that the establishment of a formal league would attain all the desired ends...
...Some doubt was expressed, however, that the establishment of a formal league would attain all of the desired ends. Further difficulties arose in contemplating the limitations of a round robin schedule. The net result was a conviction that while a football league has such promising possibilities that it may not be dismissed and must be the subject of further consideration, the time has not yet come when the seven suggested members feel ready to establish a definite and formal organization...
...over, but there is no reason for peace activity to die altogether. There is a definite place for a sensibly-managed peace society or committee in the Yard. Constructive educational work on peace problems is almost a necessity, and an independent and lively student group is the way to attain that...
...solemnly explained: "I used to balance two broiled chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat on the flesh of the woman I love while the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York." He was taken up by swank New York socialites and in his honor was held a fancy dress ball that is still the talk of the West Fifties. Mme Dali wore a dress of transparent red paper and a headdress...
...supplied the Group with its first play, The House of Connelly, and fugitive German composer Weill, who set The Beggars' Opera to new music with notable success three years ago, have fashioned a show which does not hesitate to exploit any form of theatrical procedure necessary to attain its end. The production begins conventionally enough in April 1917 with Johnny Johnson (Russell Collins), a tombstone carver with an odd way of thinking things out straight, surrounded by his fellow townsmen who have come to see the mayor unveil Johnson's statue to Peace. The ceremony is interrupted...