Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conscription for the defense of the nation. The plan proposes that it shall be duty of the President to propose and Congress to enact the legislation necessary to carry such conscription through. If this is made a constitutional requirement, the whole nation could be set to work to attain national victory at one stroke...
...think that there is a distinct danger that, owing to the present furious controversy, men of no great distinction of mind will attain publicity. This will lead to disappointment on the part of those who on certain occasions hear from these men nothing either particularly astounding or anything morally and spiritually creative...
...Oxford debater is the product of the Oxford Union, rather than of few weeks of intensive training; and it may be doubted if without such an organization the American can attain the case and fluency of this British opponent. Recognition of this by the Harvard Debating Union has been less difficult than the achievement of its Oxford prototype's unique position. The reason are not difficult to find. Aside from fundamental differences in the organization of the two universities, there is the fact that the Oxford Union represents a combination of a great number of discussion groups where interests...
There were many people in France who imagined that with the complete defeat of Germany they would automatically be freed forever. . . . Some thought that in order to attain absolute security the frontiers of France should be extended to the Rhine...
Such popular sentiments, erroneous though they may be, are factors which both you and I are bound to take into consideration. . . I see little prospect of our being able to attain any agreement in such matters unless we are first able by frank and courageous discussion to achieve some unanimity in regard to the essential purposes to which these problems are merely subsidiary...