Word: attained
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...took Goethe 60 years to finish. And I do not invoke Goethe lightly. For After the Fall is Miller's Faust and also his Odyssey. Spanning some four decades, the work is an epic that probes the struggles of an extraordinary and complex "contemporary man"--Quentin, a lawyer--to attain one moment of perfect contentment, to reach home after long and stormy wanderings, to arrive at the truth--or at least his truth ("Speak truth, not decency. I curse the whole high administration of fake innocence! I declare it; I am not innocent--nor good...
...plate G.O.P. fund-raising dinner. Much of his speech was devoted to championing civil rights, partly to counter the notion that the Mormon church discriminates against Negroes. At a press conference he said: "There is no concept in the church that the Negro can't attain anything that I can attain in this life or the next." Then Romney said he was not a presidential candidate...
...SSTs is their unexpected size. All three planemakers proposed SSTs measuring about 210 ft. in length (v. 153 ft. for the longest Boeing 707 and 180 ft. for the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic). The big planes are designed to carry 150 to 210 passengers, depending on seating arrangements, and attain a speed of Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) v. a Mach 2.2 top speed for the Concorde. To withstand the heat generated by the higher speed, the U.S. supersonics will be built of titanium and stainless steel...
...professors who spoke were not cheerful on that point either. "I don't think you can teach law students to be honest," said Professor Williams. "Their values have been set before they come to us. I still agree with the oft-made statement that the best way to attain better ethics in the law profession is to have a few good disbarments...
...rooted political interests, Mr. Kennedy achieved distinction as a naval officer and as a congressman and senator from Massachusetts. He became at 43 the thirty-fifth President of the United States and the youngest man ever elected to the Presidency. He was also the sixth alumnus of Harvard to attain the nation's highest office...