Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...license to practice medicine in this country," said Dr. Foss, "entitles its holder ... irrespective of his training ... .to attempt any operation irrespective of its magnitude and technical difficulties. . . . The glamor of surgery, the superior position the young doctor believes he will attain . . . are so alluring that it is often difficult for the recent graduate to resist the temptation of plunging [unprepared] into surgery...
...also can, and should, help within the limits of our capacity those who wish to help themselves. . . . This country has always responded to people struggling to attain or maintain their freedom. We have done so because it is important to us that they shall succeed...
...Ekwilist (equalitarian) regime is sketched by Nabokov with a disgusted charm unequaled by contemporary satirists. He has an ear for the obscene overtones of the dictator's loudspeaker: " 'From now on,' continued the tremendously swollen Tyrannosaurus, 'the way to total joy lies open. You will attain it, brothers, by dint of ardent intercourse with one another ... by adjusting ideas and emotions to those of a harmonious majority ... by letting your person dissolve in the virile oneness of the State...
...years which followed 1922 made the World War I chaos, which the graduating seniors sought to escape, look fairly mild. But in their final year at Harvard, '22 did its level best to attain the three alms of Senator Underwood and the Attorney General...
...vote of 77 for and 60 against did not attain the requisite two-thirds majority which was needed to pass the constitutional amendment for affiliation. The resolution of Frederick D. Houghteling '50 putting the HLU on record behind the principles of SDA passed by 74 to 44 tally...