Word: attained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...models that in their crisscross of small rectangular shapes and larger blocks resemble models for imaginary buildings or cities. They were, in a very rarefied sense, social blueprints, though quite unworkable ones. Perhaps Russia was the only country in which artists could seriously imagine that abstract art might attain the moral compulsion of a holy picture. Chashnik's Large Suprematist Relief (1920-26), finished a few years before he died at 27, lays no stress on its materials; it is a pure proposition of the kind of half religious ideal that was soon to be censored out of Russian...
Still, happyology has defaulted so far on the really big question: Why are people happy or why not? And more fundamental, what is happiness? The young science is far from the practical goal of providing guidance on how to attain happiness. "Alas," says Freedman, "the overwhelming finding of all the research is that there is no easy solution, no foolproof strategy for finding...
Most educational leaders at Harvard at the time shared Perry's conviction. President Lowell announced the same year that "it seemed clear" Harvard's tutorial program would "instill a desire" in undergraduates to attain academic distinction and ever-rising levels of intellectual achievement. Professor A.C. Hanford triumphantly wrote to Perry, "As a result of eight year's experience as a tutor, I am confident that the tutorial system has been responsible for increasing the standard of scholarship and for encouraging men to try for something more than a C mark...
...bottom line, the Faculty created tutorials to accomplish two ends: integrate a field and teach methodology. Graduate students--verve or no verve--lack the breadth of knowledge or expertise of professors that might enable them to attain these high ideals. With only haphazard guidance from a head tutor, graduate student instruction is essentially a case of you pays your money, you takes your chances...
...treaty was signed between the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union, there was a great discrepancy in nuclear weapons between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. At that time all three countries had in mind to prevent China from acquiring nuclear weapons, but this aim was not attained. The U.S. and Great Britain also wanted to limit the Soviet Union in nuclear weapons. Did they attain this aim? In 1972, the Soviet Union had tried its best to catch up. We cannot say that by 1972 the Soviet Union was already on a par with...