Word: attainment
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Died. Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, 67, Australia's top soldier, second Dominion man (after Jan Smuts) to attain field marshal rank; after long illness; in Melbourne. After a spell as Deputy Commander in Chief in the Middle East during World War II, he brought his rugged Australian "desert rats" back to the Southwest Pacific, mopped up Jap-infested islands that were bypassed in the Allied advance...
Ever since 1945, the University Committee on General Education has been trying to integrate freshman English with other fields of learning. Thus far, both English A and General Education A have failed to attain this goal. The worth of English A depended on the enthusiasm of the individual instructor who usually assigned material which was not related to other freshman courses. Students wrote on anything in order to satisfy the weekly theme requirement. As a result, most failed to carry over the drilling in writing technique to their term papers and exams. General Education A tried to remedy the ills...
Auriol is a proficient angler and fancies himself a proficient hunter. At the big official hunt parties given every year on the presidential country estate of Rambouillet, M. and Mme. Auriol attain a high pitch of activity. Michèle Auriol scurries about directing the beaters to drive copious supplies of game in the direction of favored guests. Vincent with his gun swivels wildly to & fro. Those who know his aim and love their lives, duck. He good-naturedly contradicts any suggestion that somebody else brought down the bird at which he thought he aimed...
...slacks, white buckskin shoes -and held the only press conference of his vacation. For a full 40 minutes on the flowered lawn of the Little White House, the President posed for the photographers, patiently answered questions, and unburdened himself to the reporters with an ease and informality impossible to attain in his crowded Washington conference room...
...hearings last week the Yale administration--speaking also for Connecticut College for Women, Wesleyan, Trinity and the Catholic colleges--said that the bills "assume evils which do not exist" and that "legislation is not appropriate to attain the desired...