Word: attained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winthrop, however, last night's results were not achieved without some effort, as it was necessary to combine the House smoker and free beer with the nomination meeting in order to lure enough Puritans from their rooms to attain a quorum...
...Some, prone and inert, lie on the ledges to which they have hurtled to death. Some dangle, arrested, over the void as they cling by their fingernails to cliffs too steep for their exhausted strength to scale. Above these, a few still strain upward in a convulsive effort to attain a height hidden from them as well as from the spectator...
...fostered Bismarck's "blood & iron" ideals of an imperialistic Greater Germany. These middle-aged men, huddled in threadbare coats, drinking a hot brew instead of the good old Moselle wine, might seem almost pitifully ridiculous. But their German dream had made Hitler and, given another chance, they might attain power once more...
...leave them unused for 20 years? The widely held concept that you must have grey hair and considerable rotundity before accepting major responsibilities is costing Canada millions of dollars in wasted dormant assets. American business wants Canadian youth, and deliberately creates attractive openings for them. Can we not attain comparable recognition here in our own country? . . . We are prepared to start at the bottom of the ladder, but won't you please give us a chance to climb up fast...
Frederick C. Packard, Jr '20, associate professor of Public Speaking and member of professor Hammond's committee, believes that speaking at the exercise "is one of the most enviable honors a student may attain. Nearly all of Harvard's famous sons," he added, were Commencement speakers...