Word: attains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total number of paid admissions for the game is approximately 51,500. Including the regiment of officials named above, the mmbers of the rival squads, and those lucky souls who have been able to get the coveted sideline passes, the crowd at the Stadium will attain its maximum capacity...
...that ideas never gain ground by being either spread or defended with violence. Violence adds nothing to their virtue when they have any; and it serves only to hide their appeal, to prevent their diffusion and sometimes to make them highly objectionable. Ideas which have need of violence to attain diffusion and become accepted never lead to happiness, liberty or lasting peace and they never produce a very high or very human civilization...
Corn is regularly the biggest crop in the U. S. although wheat and cotton attain more prominence in the headlines through their political significance...
Torn by the wind, worn, burnt out and battered, these were crippled birds. Over the tilting continent they limped on raveled wings. Their lifting power was now so impaired, due to the yield of fabrics and skeleton, that they could not attain an elevation of more than 6,500 ft. The bastions ,of the Rockies, therefore, were impassable; they felt obliged to skirt them. The route was changed. Leaving Chicago, they were scheduled to fly, not by way of Cheyenne and Salt Lake City, but to veer south, with Omaha, Dallas and Tucson as their main stopping places...
Ford's bank has still to attain exceptional size. Last year its total deposits were $2,250,000, of which about $900,000 were commercial deposits subject to check. Undoubtedly Ford has an account in the institution. Yet it cannot exceed $1,350,000-and probably is not that large...