Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committees and sub-committees does not invalidate its basic merit. The functions it intends to serve have long been sadly neglected, and if the Key performs its job well, it will have been worth the efforts of organization. It seems debatable, too, whether the Crimson Key Society will ever attain the position of prestige and honor that its proponents have outlined, and which similar societies hold in other colleges. Nevertheless, it is an experiment worth trying...
...City, and the rest of the cast are equally appealing. The handling of Joe, the Negro soldier, is particularly interesting: the natives frankly treat him as something of a freak and are quite unabashed in so stating. Yet beneath their curiosity, lies a genuine respect which permits Joe to attain individuality and equality seldom before accorded a Negro on the screen...
Objectives. The commission came to a familiar conclusion, but had some strong remedies to suggest. "For the great majority of our boys & girls," the commission said, "the kind and amount of education they can hope to attain depends not on their abilities, but on the family or community to which they happen to be born, or worse still, on the color of their skin or the religion of their parents." The U.S. must have an educational system "in which at no level. . . will a qualified individual in any part of the country encounter an insuperable economic barrier to the attainment...
Even ever-optimistic Bill Benton was almost discouraged. Said he: "If the aim of UNESCO is not to attain greater and greater freedom of information, then it has no world objective and hence no justification for its existence...
...once again with atomic control. "The preponderant majority of the Atomic Energy Commission" had made far-reaching proposals for effective atomic control. "Two nations [Russia and Poland] have been unwilling to join the majority ... a disturbing and ominous fact. . . . Since the U.S. realizes fully the consequences of failure to attain effective international control, we shall continue our efforts." But the Commission, he said, "may soon be faced with the conclusion that it is unable to complete the task," and he left the implications of that statement floating over the audience like a mushroom-shaped cloud...