Word: attained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dealing in their arguments largely with political, legal, and social conditions, the Harvard speakers used points based upon temperance as the desired end, and spoke of practical means to attain it. The Harvard speakers, who spoke a trifle more informally than the Yale debaters, were as follows: J. M. Swigert '30, P. C. Reardon '32, and Dwight Cooke...
...shots the hand of the director and the essence of true cinema art may be discerned. The settings are artistically artificial, something entirely different from the lavish Ziegfeld decorations. They are the basis of the whole picture. Incidentally, the film does deserve a mood which is almost impossible to attain in the midst of a Sunday afternoon audience at the University. It should be seen on a week night. "The Rogue Song" is the best musical production Hollywood has as yet released...
Clémenceau: "I used to think he was a carburetor,? and then I read a few pages of him?no, he just didn't carburet. He has a kind of conscientious emptiness such as a Provengal would take on who is trying to attain an air of profundity. The Americans who read him between two halves of a football match must have a good laugh...
...morality vs. the present day economic and social structure; and with the increasing insignificance of a mere diploma and the necessity for some kind of graduate work, the need of a solution becomes over more obvious. With the true courage born of despair, Mr. Lindsey has sought to attain in a single bound to a peak which it will doubtless require several generations of laborious effort to reach with any degree of security. Unfortunately, the gullet of the general public is of conservative dimensions, and has never yet been known to swallow reform in large and radical chunks...
...hybrid poplar trees which will mature rapidly, be suitable for paper manufacture. Aided by New York Botanical Garden experts, he has developed 101 hybrids from the 21 species of poplar. Fourteen of the hybrids are specially suited to papermaking by virtue of their precocity: in eight years they attain a growth which takes normal poplars 45 years to reach. A crop of this kind would allow a farmer eight years between harvests, would yield him a crop far more valuable than similar crops of wheat or corn. The cost of McKee poplar seedlings is about $5 per acre. In eight...