Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard is a fertile field for such a creation. The academic freedom upon which rests the partial tutorial system of this great institution of true learning furnishes a fitting background from which the Student Vagabond will set out to attain his end. Such liberal tendencies in the field of education as the one mentioned above are being instituted daily the country over. We sometimes wonder whether Cornell is keeping pace with these modern conceptions of education. Rules, regulations, and restrictions would make impossible such an innovation with such a purpose as is envisaged by the creation of the Harvard Student...
...Vandevelde calls "her shattered international status". Yet the very multiplicity of guarantees reveals that post-war diplomacy in Europe is very much a heritage from prewar days; and suggests that this is likely to be so until the League of Nations, the World Court, and the Locarno treaties attain the prestige of a much longer life...
...organize a government among themselves. Not until after the War, however, did they succeed, under the benevolent eye of the Allies, in getting the area now known as Poland officially recognized as an autonomous state by the Treaty of Versailles; and not until then did "Marshal" Josef Pilsudski attain recognition by the Powers as the first President of Poland. M. Stanislaw Wojciechowski was elected to succeed him in 1922, and continues as Prezydent of the Rzeczpospolita Polska. The Sejm Ustawodawcry (Parliament) has actually existed since 1918, when it was created by the earlier "Regency Council" and "Provisional Council of State...
...misinterpret me by saying that I don't like French and Italian operas. In the old favorites of Meyerbeer, Verdi and Rossini there is an appeal which no lover of music can resist. All three composers attain moments of depth. Nevertheless when I want music which I know will have the effect of satisfying me completely I turn to Wagner. I love the Ring of the Nigbelingen and am never quite certain which individual opera stands foremost in my affections. 'Die Walkure', judging from the number of times it has been produced, is probably the popular favorite. The role...
...Fisher Body Corporation built more than half the automobile bodies for cars having a base price in excess of $500. (Seventeen years ago this firm was housed in one small building.) President William A. Fisher: "Our tremendous business has resulted in achievements it would otherwise have been impossible to attain...