Word: attained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace but a Sword. The new Cabinet, strongest in 20 years, means not peace but a sharper sword. Its one objective is victory, Japanese style. Said Koiso: "I hope to attain our objective in close collaboration with our allies...
...first to reach the foothills of the Carpathians. Behind it burning villages still dotted the plain of Bukovina, which it had crossed after cap turing Cernauti. And above it stood two famed Carpathian passes which Russian armies in one bitter winter of World War I fought to attain, but never succeeded in gaining...
Although the Navy has failed to attain its full chaplain quota, its chaplains have increased from 104 (before Pearl Harbor) to 1,809. Roman Catholic and Jewish quotas are well filled, but the Protestant quota lags. Chief of Army Chaplains William R. Arnold has no such problem. Last week Roman Catholic Chaplain Arnold reported that the Army is "about on schedule" with "approximately 7,000" chaplains in service. Only the Methodist Church is "very short." The Army recently upped all denominational quotas 35% so that chaplaincies left unfilled by one church may be filled by candidates from another church which...
...Spiritual Home. The result is that in "Anglo-Saxon society a man can attain permanent eminence only [by] showing real or ostensible moral stature." In turn, that fact has led to steady progress toward "the golden mean which reconciles the necessary control of the modern state with the greatest feasible liberty of the individual." This Anglo-Saxon democracy, "like walking, is a continually arrested fall forward"-imperfect, surely, but the best there is and a wonderful thing at that. Concludes Baldwin: "Though the white race should disappear from the earth, yet if the American Negro and the Chinese carry...
...real American linguistic genius shows in modifications of English words and the coining of new ones, either to cover U.S. situations or to attain grandiloquence. A few language coiners cited...