Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the news was spread that Dan Moody had failed to attain an absolute majority,* hence Mrs. Ferguson was not eliminated unless she desired to keep her prom ise. She decided not to do so, saying ambiguously "a challenge issued by Jim is not the acceptance of a challenge by Miriam." True, able politicians like onetime Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey considered the campaign closed, refused to have anything more to do with the Fergusons, and Texans generally were sated with Ku Klux Klan claptrap. What difference? Jim made a speech...
...view of my refusal to ignore the laws and to seek the abolition or amendment of them, you still wish to use lawful means to attain your desires, the way is open to address your petition to the Deputies and Senators of the Federal Congress or to the local Legislatures...
...evidently a suicide, an hour after he first sees her. The third stage is the transferring of his love to the dead girl's twin sister, who then kills his love, enabling him to escape into normal young manhood, by confessing to jealous sororicide. By inference, Oberlin may attain to his schoolmaster's spiritual plane later in life...
...Mountain streams, unseen, unpublished. Four years come and go, and again sweltering delegates in some hot metropolis cast their state's several votes as a unit for some Democratic Presidential candidate. Again they cast them, again and again,* until in desperation they compromise on some one who can attain the two-thirds majority necessary for Democratic nomination. Last week John W. Davis, one-time nominee (1924), corporation lawyer emitted a dictum and a prophesy for his party: The dictum: "One delegate, one vote; the majority of votes to nominate." Both the "two-thirds" and the "unit" rules should...
...mediacy had created the comforts and thereby had induced the crowding of huge modern cities. This was essential, he once said, "to attain a high degree of human culture. But all the advantages of the city will soon be possible on the farm without having to put up with city life. . . . Heretofore we have been compelling electricity to take us to the city. Hereafter we shall simply touch a button and have it take the city out to us." He was the applier of electricity, but, when asked what it was, he said: "I can't tell...