Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps it is the novelty alone which raises this picture high above the usual type of film which Americans have seen pour out of the sunny colony on the Pacific coast, for it has a delightful lightness and freshness which Hollywood seems rarely able to attain...
Before the Supreme Court on November 15 the Government argued the opposite: that the acts since the Sherman law merely allowed farmers and workers to organize, in order to attain their ends, but did not in any case grant them immunity from prosecution for conspiracy in restraint of trade...
...disease-had high hopes for this new campaign. Said he: "Many people see sex dimly through a mist-dangerous, but mysteriously attractive. . . . Modern psychology and medicine . . . have shown over and over again the need for replacing taboos and ignorance by frank discussion and knowledge so that young people can attain healthy adulthood...
...just bought a sizable interest in the old down-at-heels Pimlico race track outside Baltimore. But the prize he offered for his dream race was only $10,000, mere timothy to big U. S. stables.* Most racing experts did not give the Pimlico Special an outside chance to attain the prestige of a World Series or a Rose Bowl...
...been the account, by one gently bred, out-of-the-way wife after another, of what life is like in the centre of the Dust Bowl, on the borders of Manchuria and in any environment whose loneliness, distance or oddity few Atlantic readers were likely, in the flesh, to attain. It was therefore not surprising that the book to win, over 600-odd contenders, the Atlantic's $5,000 non-fiction contest for 1939, should be an account of what-life-has-been-like for the long, lean, lemon-tongued, ladylike U. S. wife of British H. G. Keith...