Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cultivate friendly relations with all nations, and thus contribute to the maintenance of world peace and the advancement of the welfare of humanity. We call upon you, our beloved subjects, to be of one mind, and shunning selfish aims for public service, work with one accord, helping us to attain our aspirations...
...that these laws and the Tammany-made industrial code for the protection of wage-earners of both sexes have been copied by most of the States of the Union and by foreign governments is never stressed by the leather-lunged hirelings of so-called 'reform movements' that sprout, attain rank, growth, and wither, all within a few years...
...oracular solemnities, but who can sing with pride and independence and lyric fervor, with something of the cello's poignantly vibrant utterance in its upper register, yet with a fullness of body, a dark and beautiful austerity, and an amplitude of sombre richness that no cello is able to attain...
...more can a football team win praise without victories than a student can attain honor without marks. Athletic success is measured by scores just as surely as scholastic is by A's and B's. Whatever may be our attempts to ignore this fact they are patently doomed to failure...
...tremendous output of detective stories a goodly number attain the high standard of sportsmanship which gives the amateur sleuth a pleasantly difficult chance of spotting the criminal. Follows a list of recent good mysteries...