Word: attained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vatican City the Congregation of Sacred Rites met before Pope Pius XI, voted to beatify Mother Philippine Duchesne, founder of the U. S. branch of the Order. Now to be titled "Blessed," this pioneer Madame thus passed the second milestone on the road to sainthood, which she will eventually attain if two miracles are henceforth performed in response to prayers addressed through...
...private gods were Edouard Manet, Velasquez and Goya. Referred to as "The Ashcan School" by outraged critics, "The Eight" were: Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William J. Glackens, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast and Everett Shinn. They were men of vivid personality and all lived to attain considerable success of one sort or another...
...inaction which usually simplify difficult problems would not settle the question of Harvard's lost sheep. He would have appreciated immediately the pickle which confronts a growing national university, when its local clients demand concessions. He would have understood instantly that delay makes such a social problem rapidly attain momentum. By this time, he would have several ERA projects distracting commuter attention...
...nadir of cold called Absolute Zero exists not as a reality of nature but as a textbook definition, as a goal which haunts the minds of low-temperature researchers and which they do not expect to attain. Cold is the absence of heat. Heat is molecular activity. Thus Absolute Zero is the point at which the molecules that compose matter would lie like heaps of corpses in rigid juxtaposition. Physicists locate Absolute Zero at -273.13° Centigrade...
...final hardness was not affected by pressure; only the time necessary to attain this hardness was changed, the experiments showed. Alloys initially but partially aged under high pressures showed no irregularities when the aging was concluded under normal pressures...