Word: attained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peace with Honor!" In Realmleader Hitler's post-plebiscite radio address from Bavaria he repeated his familiar statement that, having got the Saar, Germany would ask no more territory from France. Then he thundered: "Great and unconditional is our determination to attain for Germany equality!"-i. e. in armaments...
...case she is restless, her control is lost, and she may be more than sarcastic. . . . There is a divergence of views about her and these views will have some publicity. . . . Indeed it looks as if this year should be spent in retirement with as little effort as possible to attain further prominence. . . ." For her tenth birthday, three days after her Manhattan concert, Ruth's horoscope was read again...
...London Naval Parleys were called for the express purpose of limiting naval armaments, and, by that method, to attain a certain measure of world security. A brief review of the results of the parleys will show that, Japan demanding equality, the United States and Britain standing stone-wall against such a demand in favor of the old 5-5-3 ratio, not even a start was made in the way of co-operative limitation and the conference adjourned a failure. This failure the Americans attributed to the Japanese; the Japanese, on the other hand, charge it to the Americans...
...week with easy hearts. From now on they were going to be looked after by a woman who has spent all her life making other people happy. To be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, President Roosevelt had appointed Josephine Aspinwall Roche, famed Colorado coal operator. Second woman ever to attain sub-Cabinet rank,* her special province was to be the U. S. Public Health Service, the welfare of Treasury employes...
...used to balance two broiled lamb chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat...while the sun was setting, I was...able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York...