Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt very much whether the professional earnings of all the men at the Boston bar average half that amount. But there are shining rewards at the top of the profession! They attract all youths and sundry. Some, through sheer ability no matter what school they came from, will attain the goal. But many among them, if we may credit the dictum of the Boston lawyer here cited, will never spin the churn themselves, but ironically will greatly help others to win it. By reason of the incompetent advice which incompetent men among them will give, and by reason...
...international fact of our day." M. de Jouvenal uttered them for France, and added that nations must not go to sleep as the echoes of one war die away and expect to awake in safety as the next one rumbles in the offing, but must make mutual sacrifices to attain mutual gains...
...much time can you afford to spend away from your studies in such extra-curricular work? No one can tell you. It is an individual problem and a problem that each student must solve if he is to attain his ultimate goal of self-discovery. It is a problem just as real in later life as in college. Most men live and die without ever knowing their capacity. Here lies the greatest benefit to be had from outside activities. The wise student will use them to this end, will make the proper adjustment between his studies and his other interests...
Youth. Amid the marble domes and busy streets of Calcutta, Chitta grew to an aesthetic perfection that only a Hindu can attain. He went first to the London Missionary School at Bhowanipore, thence to the Presidency-College at Calcutta. His scholastic attainments must have been very great, for subsequently his speeches showed him to be a man of refined culture and his poetry, mystical and beautiful, revealed the flower of his Oriental soul. It may be assumed that he was also conscious of the sahibs and mem-sahibs that stirred among the teeming millions of India, and he may have...
...applause has been bestowed on them. Beyond the limits of the Back Bay, unsupported by its intellectual or financial air, they have bowed at last to a more commercial art. The future of the St. James Theatre will be doubtless intermingled with motion pictures and vaudeville. Boston is fast attain- ing a mid-Western level of dramatic appreciation...