Word: attained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order, that the praise which must be showered on this production be tempered, it should be stated that it is not the equal of Pudovkin's earlier film. Only in the tremendous climax and several scattered moments does it attain the heights of the symphonic flow of visual imagery which was maintained through out "The End of St. Petersburg...
...basic fact, there nevertheless seem to be several weaknesses in the recommendation. There are great differences in the rate that persons intellectually mature. Some mature early, finish secondary school in four years without difficulty, and are admitted to college, where they do good work. There are others who never attain the intellectual development of the first, and who find difficulty in finishing their preparation. In college they are misfits, and should be weeded out as soon as possible. But there is also a third group of those who mature slowly, but when they once finish preparatory school are perfectly ready...
...juvenile. The use of complete under-graduate control would quite possibly result in an attempt to produce more musically difficult work than an experienced director would be apt to be apt to use. Secondly, we feel very strongly that the college Glee Club should make every possible efforts to attain the standards of excellence which the Post feels is unnecessary. We do not imply that men should practice night and day, but that within the limits of reasonable practice hours every effort should be made towards a more accurate perfection...
...obviously impossible, even if desirable, to attain an exact numerical distribution under all four headings. From the present figures, however, and from the present tutorial staffs it may be seen that there is a danger of enlisting too many men from a particular field of concentration in a single House. It is still more possible that too many men will be chosen from a more general branch-of learning; the physical sciences, the social sciences, the languages, literatures, and arts...
Orchestras, like women, aspire to homes of their own. The ambition, in the case of orchestras, is lofty. It assumes a financial well-being and general confidence which few orchestras ever attain, yet last week it was realized by the prodigious Cleveland Orchestra in its 13th year...