Word: attainment
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...What we mean by Revolution is ... national independence, progressive realization of democracy and a rising level of living conditions for the masses. When victory comes at the end of this war, we shall have fully achieved national independence, but will have far to go to attain our other two objectives...
...Last year's anniversary saw sporadic demonstrations in England and Canada. Students who marched through the Arc de Triomphe were met by Nazi rifle fire. The United States was worrying about convoys. But tomorrow students in all the remaining free nations gather together pledged to fight for, and to attain, a world in which freedom of inquiry may again be a property of all. The systematic attack on education and liberal minds has been a steady auxiliary of Fascism's progress, and the Axis will have been stopped only when free colleges may once more open their doors in every...
Woman & Gold. Gist of Ramakrishna's gospel: 1) Every religion is true, and a possible path to God. 2) For most men, who are slaves of their senses, a dualistic religion with ceremonies, music and symbols is necessary. Men of purer intellect can attain modified monism; they know there is a further range of experience but are not able fully to realize it. Monism, the realization of oneness of all things with differences merely in form, can be achieved only by those who reach ecstasy. 3) For each ladder of thought there is a corresponding series of duties...
...enemy aliens in the country, they had the smallest number of internees among the big three (Germany, Japan, Italy). They are working hard on production lines; their sons are fighting in the armed forces. Francis Biddle promised another reward, which will permit about one-third their number to attain citizenship quickly: suspension of the literacy test for all aliens over 50 who have lived in the U.S. continuously since...
...result of Secretary of War Stimson's announcement a month age, the presumption now is that all enlistees in the Military Reserve may expect to be inducted into the regular Army at the end of the scholiast term in which they attain their draft age. Exception may be made, however, in the case of a very few pre-med, pre-dental, and electronics concentrators. "I am willing to guess," said Perkins, "with the situation as vague as it is, that we will have a clear statement from the War Department within the next two or three weeks...