Word: attained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion that the two half courses be converted into a single full course of the omnibus variety is a very practical one. Undoubtedly a full course organized in this way would not attain the popularity of Psychology A. But at least a graduate of the elementary course would no longer come forth with his taste for psychology blunted through innocuous teaching, or with the conviction that he really knew something about the subject, merely because of the course's superficiality. The harm done either the concentrator or the non-concentrator in either case is as obvious as it is destructive...
...applaud any efforts directed toward postponement of the future war--until our bonus has been paid and spent. The "peace strike" is a sincere effort in this direction and any success it may attain will be for our benefit...
Florenz Ziegfeld did some first-rate glorifying in his long and spectacular career as producer of musical extravaganzas but never did he attain the dizzy height of opulent glorification which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have reached in their three-hour film biography of "The Great Ziegfeld," which is now running at the Colonial Theatre. In comparison with this musical of musicals previous super-productions fade to the class of colossal on a small scale...
...unlimited cut system. Freshman year he won the honored Porter Admission Prize for the highest mark on an examination in Latin, mathematics and English. At the end of his sophomore year he was awarded the honored John Sumner Runnels Prize for "zeal for knowledge and industry to attain...
Also on the program is Mendelssohn's Concerto in E minor for Violin in which Nathan Milstein, the young Russian virtuose is to be the soloist. The concert closes with Sibelius's First Symphony Like Beethoven, the great Finnish composer is orienting himself in this work and does not attain quite the characteristic breadth and scope which are so typical of his later symphonies, notably the Fifth...