Word: attainment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kennan's own, for it is his analysis of Russia which for the past five years has formed the heart of U.S. policy. Containment is Kennan's catchword. As "Mr. X" writing in Foreign Affairs in 1947, he argued that Russia would not risk war to attain its expansionist objectives, that it could be checked by cool-headed applications of U.S. strength at points around the perimeter, and that ultimately the "seeds of decay" inherent in the Soviet dictatorship would destroy its threat to the democratic world...
...despite this, Conant, unlike Lowell, saw hope that the members of the class of 1952 could attain a practical ideal--not the hazy and distant ideal of Lowell. Quoting Horace Mann that one should "be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity," Conant prophesized that the members of 1952 will be given "the privilege of making the reformer once again a highly respected though bitterly controversial figure" who "will forge new tools with which to reshape our American democracy to meet a continuously changing technological civilization...
...attain such mass production, Engineer Keating developed many special machines. From his $400,000 research laboratory have come such devices as a wire-former that automatically shapes strainer forms at a clip of 1,500 an hour, a woodworking machine that turns out knife handles in one operation instead of four, a sharpener for potato peeler blades that is so safe and automatic that its operators read the comics while feeding blades into...
...deny these groups the right to protest, nor the legality of their methods so long as there is no violence. Sign waving is no crime, nor is plodding to and fro before some hapless theater. But their conception of tolerance, and of how to attain it, is no less disturbing for its legality...
...piano part in this song-cycle is more than a simple accompaniment. According to Hindemith, its relation to the voice is of great importance in achieving the effect that he wished to attain. Mr. Tucker's technique and interpretive insight was in every way equal to Miss Curtin's singing...