Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department, if not expected, was not a great shock; but the alliance of Schlesinger with the bogus A.I.F. was certainly a surprise in his own community, which has come to think of him as a sober and considered political thinker. The Conference he chose to attack probably won't accomplish anything, thanks to the opposition to it. His opposition is justified on the grounds of personal belief; but more reasoned and more careful disapproval might have carried more weight and would certainly have been a wiser way of attacking a subject which has received and will receive so much public...
...transport services of the Navy and Air Force had been merged into the Military Air Transport Service, and the Berlin airlift was a dramatic demonstration of what M.A.T.S. could accomplish...
Slap in the Face? In Paris, the U.N.'s Security Council, which had first put its hand to the Indonesia struggle in the summer of 1947, met in emergency session. The Dutch told the Council bluntly that intervention by it would accomplish nothing, that the Java action was a purely domestic affair over which U.N. had no jurisdiction...
...that time, Brynteson opposed a long poll because, he explained yesterday, "it would accomplish nothing more than a short poll." However, a motion by Frederic D. Houghteling '50 was voted upon before he could explain his objections, Brynteson claimed...
...Class Committee is being organized under the Paul report on class organization, which the Council approved last spring. Although the complete reorganization advocated by the report is impossible to accomplish for the juniors, Houghton said that as many reforms as possible would be attempted...