Word: attains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This discarding of identification numbers is directly in line with the efforts of the business world in recent years to add the subtle personal touch to its work. From banks to bakeries, and now to busses,--the human element is a goal which all strive to attain. Witness the brass plate by the grated window, when you cash a check or buy a Pullman ticket, which informs you whether it be Mr. Stevenson or Mr. Warren with whom you are doing business! All this shows a change in the state of mind of the employer towards the employee. Instead...
...Freshman in 1913, Haydock vaulted only 9 feet 6 inches, but by constant practice he was able to attain one foot higher in his Sophomore year and cleared 11 feet 6 inches in this third year to tie for third place in the Yale meet. Finally in his Senior year, he vaulted 12 feet 6 inches in the Yale meet tieing for first place and creating a new University record which has not yet been broken. When serving as a first lieutenant in Company L of the 28th Infantry, Haydock was killed at Cantigny, France...
...grounding. I don't believe this is possible by working out a scheme of an inner and outer bar such as has been proposed by the Carnegie report. In this system, the higher grade of lawyers would be permitted to practice in the inner bar, while those failing to attain this position, either from moral or legal failings, would have to content themselves with the practice of criminal law in the outer or lower...
This branch of athletics is at present to be confined within the scope of the university, and is not intended for outside competition, and many candidates for seats in the rowing shells who have not yet become "regulars" will find splendid opportunities to help attain their highest ambition in rowing, that is, a seat in the varsity eight--by daily exercising in a shell...
...traction railroads, 96,000 industrial plants and 550 central electrical stations producing power. Electricity is the greatest agent of power in the world today, the father of all accomplishments, moral, intellectual, and physical. It is only by harnessing this power into one central organization that we can hope to attain the efficiency needed to meet the engineering problems of America's future...