Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...true, nevertheless, that a man must necessarily renounce many of his possibilities in order to accomplish anything in this highly specialized world. His interests almost unavoidably contract: he cannot leave the main fine of his pursuit to wander off into devious ways, however alluring. But while engrossment in a chosen task does reclude the possibility of comprehensive self-development and activity, it is nevertheless true that if life is to be kept wholesome and happy, the sense of a wide horizon must not be lost. And it is just that sense of the wholeness of life including all the fragmentary...
...returning to the custom of holding spring football practice, Captain Burr and Coach Haughton are giving the first possible instance of the initiative needed for the coming season. They have secured the services of several efficient graduate coaches, and intend to accomplish something more than mere drilling in fundamentals. We cannot help but admire the business-like way in which the season has been inaugurated, and we feel that this preliminary industry augurs well for the success of the team next fall...
...aesthetic, the intellectual, and the moral wants the state and church can do much in common. But to accomplish this, much of the orthodox and worn-out theory must be cast aside. It is essential that more rational methods of dealing with Sunday be adopted, providing for instance healthy, inspiring drama and opera at established municipal theatres rather than allowing certain managers to produce anything they wish to, as we see in Boston today. The opening of the school-houses on week days and Sundays for the purposes of ethical instruction would make a dynamic force for moral good equal...
...opponent." As a penalty to enforce this measure it was ruled that "if a forward pass is legally touched and when free is touched by another player of the passer's side, the ball shall go to the opponents on the spot." The object of this rule is to accomplish the needed change of making the forward pass less a random play, and the penalty attached will tend to prevent scrambling at the far end of the pass...
...cognizance of the hierarchical nature of the Church, and imposed restrictions which limited the growth, influence and freedom of the Church. D. Harr 1Sp., the last speaker for the negative, dealt with the injustice of the Act to the State itself; for all its evils, it did not accomplish the very end for which it was passed. It neither separated the Church from the State, nor did it grant that freedom of religious worship which it purported to give; for by the provisions of the measure, the State retained a wide control over the work of the Church...