Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even in an optimal production, Falkenhain would probably fail to attain the stature of an ideal Dolly. She lacks both the subtlety to express her understanding of those whose lives she arranges, and a commanding presence over them. Oddly enough, she plays the part with the voice and gestures of the typically bossy Brooklyn Jewish mother--odd because Dolly's name indicates that she is an Irish girl who only married...
...Jones to his son, dated November 8th, 1854, does a kind of understanding flash forth: "I wish to make the impression on you with the point of a diamond that you never can succeed and attain to any eminence in your profession if you have anything at all to do with the management of Negro property. No man within my knowledge ever has.. ∙Horace Judson
...short musical phrase. The boogie was almost lost in the mass of rock influences until Canned Heat revived it in their 1968 single "On the Road Again". "Boogie Music." The single brought boogie back into vogue and gave the group a measure of fame they had been unable to attain as a blues band...
Tatrallyay won 24 tournament bouts in three days of NCAA action to capture fourth place in the national epee competition. Only the top six performers in the NCAA's attain All-American status...
...today's world. As the distinguished American Anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, once put it, "To give the Negro an appreciation of his past is to endow him with the confidence in his own position in this country and in the world which he must have and which he can best attain when he has available a foundation of scientific fact concerning the ancestral cultures of Africa and the survival of Africanism in the New World". There is no question that when such a body of facts is firmly and scientifically established, it can create an intellectual ferment that, when popularly diffused...