Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...December 7, the Dean's Office announced that the two-woman rule had been repealed, effective the next January 4. It was abolished because "the students felt that such a rule was very inconvenient, and that it did not accomplish the purpose intended," read the official statement from University Hall. The guest book was retained in the revised plans, and so was requirement of master's permission. For the next five years, all was quiet, relatively, on the parietal front...
...thing was obvious from all the intercourse, it was that several other colleges have done better than Harvard in building themselves up as social centers for their students. Some of them accomplish it with fancy common rooms and lavish celebrations; Yale does the job by leaving enforcement of parietal rules to the discretion of the College masters, some of whom are quite discreet...
Jordan could not have hoped to accomplish any miracles this year. It will be rough again in 1951, but he is gradually laying the foundations of winning football. In the meantime, he has aimed for the respect of his opponents; that is about all he could hope for, and he has gained that...
...that the Washington conferences could accomplish was a decision on the original contributions of each of the Pact members in terms of ships, planes, and men. In addition, they blueprinted the growth of armed forces in Europe until 1953, postulating 77 divisions by that time, including ten from West Germany. Naturally, nothing more concrete was decided about the ten German divisions, and the matter was left for the deputy ministers to take up when they convened in London last Monday...
Whittemore's hardest problem was to find the best possible instruments with which to accomplish this job, never before attempted. He decided that dental tools best serve the purpose. His aim was to preserve the mosaics as found rather than to restore them...