Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vermont Farmer-Poet Robert Frost, 74, took a trip down to Manhattan to receive the Limited Editions Club's fifth gold medal for his Complete Poems, judged the book published in the last five years "most likely to attain the stature of a classic." Speaking to 300 breakfast guests, he became flustered for a moment and couldn't remember the opening lines of his famous poem about ants in a hive burying a fellow ant, which concludes...
Industrialists soundly fear that more efficient competitors in other countries would put them out of business if trade barriers were lifted. Economists are afraid that the dislocations necessary to attain the long-range objective of integration would interfere with Western Europe's urgent short-range objective of earning more dollars. Politicians are afraid that economic hardships would give the Communists a chance to recapture lost ground. Said London's Economist last week: "[It] is not possible ... to telescope into one great act of policy a process which took over three generations to complete in the preindustrial United States...
...undergraduate council will discuss tonight how to attain this goal...
Jalopies are just old cars that have been stripped down to attain a maximum of speed and safety and have been given a thorough engine job. Both front and rear fenders are pared off. Outsize tires on the right side are allowed to help the driver negotiate turns. The cars take a terrific beating but the fact that they seldom have to quit a race seems to indicate how substantially they were built originally and how well they are taken care...
...path to the right or the sharper but less windswept one to the left. The thrills are much the same either way. At the top, the Alpinist may experience what one veteran climber called "the feeling of release and mystic union upon reaching the goal." All climbers do not attain that experience. Last month, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard near the top and froze to death...