Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pass the buck to the colleges. It is our role to bring boys to the highest degree of maturity possible." All this is just what the Loomis founders wanted-"to train boys to habits of vigor and self-reliance and [to use] every means to attain this...
...irritated by what he considered the President's dilettante interest in the Navy, and refused to yield to Roosevelt's blandishments. With retirement age in mind, he wrote F.D.R. in 1942: "I should bring to your notice the fact that the record shows that I shall attain the age of 64 years on November 23rd." The scrawled notation he got back shivered his steely timbers: "So what, old top? I may even send you a birthday present!-F.D.R...
...criminals, 3) repatriation of Japanese prisoners still held by the Russians, 4) the abolition of war toys throughout the world. Said Fellowship President Dr. Gunapala Malalasekera of Ceylon: "We earnestly call upon the world's leaders . . . quickly to pay heed to the teaching of Sakyamuni,* so as to attain a world of selfless concord...
...slipped further and further into the past, liberalism has quietly hardened. Where once it was an attitude, it became a program, and where once it was a program, it is now a religion. Liberalism is presently too much a matter of setting rigid standards--which politicians can attain only by voting "right" on a handful of issues--of black and white convictions, of catch phrases, and of automatic responses...
...attain the dream...