Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...upon any opportunity to create a disturbance. Practically the only means of preventing such occurrences as the directors complain of, aside from that which has been adopted, would have been through the expulsion of members, - a punishment altogether too severe for the offense. As all warnings had failed to accomplish anything there was really nothing to do but that which has been done. We hope, however, that it will not be necessary to adhere permanently to the decision, but that when the members of the association realize that the directors are in earnest in their efforts to preserve order, they...
...does not accomplish the end desired. - (a) Does away with only one branch of capitalism. - (1) Trusts and monopolies will not be affected. - (b) Would not relieve the burdens of the poor. - (1) Country poor will be weighted down by increased tax. - (2) City poor will merely be assessed by the state instead of the individual: Pop. Sci. Mo. XXXVI, 489. - (c) Tax has no basis in history or in practice. - (1) When it has been tried it has failed: Century XL, 385; Seligman in Jour. Soc. Sci. No. XXVII...
...fairly outplayed, and that in one of those - namely, the general team play, - is something in which it has been claimed Harvard would never be able to excel. It is to be hoped that we will now hear less of the old story of Harvard's inability to accomplish anything when unity of spirit and action are required...
...publish this morning on the hare and hounds runs. From the standpoint of the Athletic Association, the chief object of these runs is to bring out a large number of men and by this means to increase the possibilities of discovering new material for the track. In order to accomplish this end the runs must offer the greatest possible attractions to such men as do not have any special idea of prize winning. Cross country running, to be sure, must, if the name is to signify anything, be through fields and up and down hills for at least a part...
...Republican House could accomplish nothing. (a) The President could veto its acts. (b) No two-thirds majority could be secured in the Senate...