Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corporations including those which make Shredded Wheat Biscuits and run the Santa Fe trains, the owner of a comfortable supply of bond coupons, the husband of a charming wife, and a thrice elected member of the U. S. House of Representatives. In the House there are two ways to attain fame. One either has to be a character like Wet Representative La Guardia who has spent all summer trying to be arrested, or Dry Representative Upshaw, who sees hellfire in every drink; or else be a leader like Speaker Nicholas Longworth or Representatives Burton, Garrett and Madden, who are known...
...Austen Chamberlain himself furnished the only verbatim report of anything which passed between the two statesmen. Said he: "I said to Premier Mussolini: 'You should follow my example and take a long rest aboard a yacht. That is the only way to attain true tranquillity...
...weakness lies in just the same misfortune; that men and women of the audience find it hard to sympathize with these strange passions. Yet what is lacking of sympathy is counterbalanced by the peculiar fascination of a theme handled with the explicit deftness that only the French can attain in these matters...
...advisory board has been diminished this year by half in order to attain a higher degree of flexibility. This system aims at maintaining intimate relations between adviser and advisee throughout the year. The advantages of the advisory system to Freshmen were discussed yesterday by W. E. Soule '27, chairman of the Advisory Board...
...Kelly's The Showoff. This one even shamelessly copies John Bartel's famed laugh. Joe Laurie, former vaudeville star, quite appropriately graduates into the leading role. The play appeals especially to the humor and tear ducts of folk who are not irritated because the title fails to attain the proper subjunctive mood...