Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...considering the organization of a system for establishing and maintaining world peace, we must refrain from over idealization; although we look to an ideal to which our proposed system aims to attain, our principal attention must be focused on the factors to be considered at the birth and during the infancy of our system...
...lecture of Captain Ian Hay Beith scheduled for February 12 in the Union deserves a large audience. First hand impressions always have something of vital life which no impersonal speculation may attain. The Captain has spoken already at Yale and Princeton. His talk here is especially interesting because he speaks from the same platform where Mrs. Skeffington spoke, with a different view of the same events which have affected them both. His conclusions will be judged by the same judgments as were hers...
...substitute material in the minor sports are many. One is that men fear the handicap of inexperience. A man who has never tried any sport will go bravely out for football. Yet he will be afraid of fencing because, through his own ignorance, it seems an impossible art to attain...
...human being could stand the strain of a high stroke over such a distance. The strain on the heart is therefore a gradual if a long pull, and is not so weakening as would be a shorter race. In a race of four miles, then, when the stroke attains an average of 30 strokes to the minute--and in spite of newspaper reports it is very seldom that any four mile crew can attain to this average--taking 20 minutes to row, the oarsman will have breathed 600 times. In a three mile race where the spurting would be fast...
...Sanborn can attain to a more melodious form of verse and learn to see and express things with less straining of the senses and the English language, the artistic insight that he has shown in the general structure of "Vie de Bordeaux" may give him a place of note among contemporary poets...