Word: attains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation clearly. It is one of those tropical-island stories in which an untutored girl, brought up among the cocoanut palms, falls madly in love with the first young man she has ever seen, a gob landing from an American destroyer. How, one cannot help asking, did she attain her perfect mastery of correct English if her only companion had been a drunken beachcomber of a father, and where did she get the print dress that one discovers her to be wearing, after naturally supposing for the first page or two that she wore the sort of costume commonly attributed...
...said, can ever attain his standard, for if he could it would not be a sufficiently high one to live up to; and no man can do as well as he can. He can, however, always do better than he did before, and for this reason the speaker advised that whatever was undertaken be done as well as possible. From this habit comes that force of character which enables a man to mould his own destiny. In concluding President Lowell said: "The object of the University is a preparation for the strongest, best, and noblest destiny that...
Coach Bingham's task this year was not primarily to win the meets of the season;--it was rather to establish a new system of track which would be self sustaining and which would not depend on preparatory school stars. But in order to attain this purpose it was, to put it paradoxically, of first importance that this particular team he a winner. Success this spring meant and means now that it is gained, that each year more and more new material will be available for track, that each year will be more and more successful. Victory over Princeton...
...great opportunities are open. Judge Gary, the head of the United States Steel Corporation, and Mr. Lovett, the president of the Union Pacific Railway, are conspicuous examples. Therefore if we are considering in what walk of life a man can exercise the greatest influence, acquire power most easily, or attain high place, the law offers ample opportunities for all these...
...like "Main Street" it present a vivid protest against the commonplaceness, the narrow mindedness, that holds the majority of us down to a life of anotony and mundane, materialist achievement. It is a clear cut cross section view of the experiences and struggles of one who, failing to attain for herself expression of herself, gives all that a woman can give that her daughter may grow up to know the freedom and deliciousness of being herself...