Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...various pressure groups. He has made mistakes, but by following the conservative pattern of testing the water with one's toes instead of diving in over one's head, he has indeed set an example in Ohio of what an honest, conservative government can accomplish-an example that might be noted by Stevenson, Harriman and Kefauver...
Only if the real Negro leaders are included on the commission will it have any chance for success. Moreover, the commission can accomplish nothing if both sides are not willing to compromise in favor of the gradual readjustment of a 300-year old social philosophy. For many moderates, there is a tragic number of "if's" in Alabama...
These committees would ease several aspects of course conflicts, but they could accomplish little without another modification of the present system-more even distribution of courses among the various examination groups. Largely because of faculty preference, in many departments the bulk of undergraduate courses are scheduled on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10 and 11 and on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 10. If, in spite of faculty and student pressures, more of these courses could be distributed, and interdepartmental committees would be enabled to accomplish something beneficial, if not striking. Although no one expects the great morass of courses...
...would clearly be more advantageous than whatever he can remember of English Villages in the Thirteenth Century, and his hard-earned skill in step tests. Harvard's avowed objective is to produce "whole men," and "well-rounded members of society"--here is the administration's golden opportunity to accomplish this goal...
Despite its occasional bumblings, however, the Council's 1955 record is at least even. Handicapped by its inability to retain one president for any considerable length of time, the group still managed to accomplish its usual odd jobs quietly, and usually efficiently. It succeeded in reorganizing the Class Day Committee, thereby unifying two previous committees and setting up a far more satisfactory election system. During the Spring, the Council took steps to avoid in the future the kind of financial fiasco it was to experience this fall: it initiated a capital found, hoping that Councils eventually will be able...