Word: attained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortunate as to be residents of Massachusetts and putting further admissions on a strict quota basis. The bill was designed to encourage precisely this action. Its framers feel that local boys and girls are being denied their fair share of the state's admittedly outstanding educational opportunities. Failing to attain its primary intent, the bill would secure to the state a few millions of additional revenue as consolation for its flouted sovereignty...
...those with the advantage of tutoring, the department voted to eliminate the divisional examinations for non-honors candidates and to lighten the course requirement structure. With such a move, as Professor Sherburn, the division's chairman, has admitted, the English Department virtually announced that its graduates could no longer attain the level of academic achievement reached by past holders of the degree...
Then Molotov launched into a 50-minute speech rehashing his previous arguments. "It will lead to no good," he said, "to set a majority against a minority." And: "As a golden rule all conferences should attain unanimity...
...attain his end, the American relies on the strength of reason of individuals: Russia concentrates in one man all the power of society. The one has for his principal means of action, Liberty, the other, Servitude. Their points of departure are different; their paths are diverse. But each of them seems called by a secret design of Providence to hold one day in his hands the destinies of half the world...
...years older on his return to China, as some observers thought, it was not from the shock of disillusion. The patient, war-seasoned soldier had again & again emphasized the real U.S. role in China-the establishment of a political and economic climate in which the Chinese themselves might attain unity and strength. In Chungking this week he was not surprised when each side assured him that the other had started the shooting...