Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religious and moral earnestness have sought to attain the perfect life by two different paths--contemplation and service...
...results of lasting value, although these are by no means always the ones that bulk largest at the time or are the most conspicuous. If fame delight, you, if to be talked about, to have your name and portrait in the public press, the object is not difficult to attain for people who care about it, and will devote some effort and a little skill thereto. Verily they have their reward, and one that, like riches and other worldly prizes, is a gratification to those whose hearts are set upon it; but in the sight...
King Haakon VII was born on August 3, 1872. On July 22, 1896, he married Princess Maud, third daughter of the then Prince Edward of Wales. They have a son and heir in the popular Prince Olav, who will attain his twentieth birthday on July...
...cylinder engine weighs only 20 pounds and is scarcely bigger than a phonograph motor. It develops 12 horsepower and the plane can fly 60 miles to the gallon. Yet so skilled is the design that Barbot flew to 6,000 feet in 30 minutes, and can attain a speed of 70 miles an hour...
...there was admittedly a "desirable end" in such laws, even though, as the Supreme Court recognized, prohibitory legislation was not the way to attain it. The state legislators were aiming not merely at the teaching of foreign languages, but at their actual use as the common speech in American schools. Countless isolated districts survive, both in the cities and in the country, where the native tongue of foreign immigrants is used instead of English. It continues as the family speech; newspapers and church services conform with it, and even the schools have adopted it to the exclusion of English. There...