Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philippine Islands been in so satisfactory and promising condition as today." And Secretary Davis said: "Had each of the departments of the United States government participated in the administration of the islands to the extent which we are accustomed in the United States, it would have been impossible to accomplish our primary purpose, the development of a people capable of self-government...
...actually act when circumstances make it imperative. The Wizard is one of those melodramatic mystery cinemas whose plots are based on the misbehavior of a subhuman creature. In this case, the creature (generally referred to as the "Thing") is conjured into existence by a wicked surgeon to accomplish the death of four persons; needless to say one of the four persons is the heroine and needless to say the hero, a young newspaper reporter, rescues her from the disastrous embraces. Before this happens there have been many moments when watchers, in an agony of excitement, have twisted their terror into...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.'s sale of $75,000,000 of bonds through Kuhn, Loeb & Co., again brought that investment house into close touch with the larger U. S. iron & steel companies. Five years ago they tried to accomplish a merger of these six concerns...
...Commonplace." "These results have not been easy to accomplish. They have been extremely hard. They have been anything but commonplace. They mark a new epoch and set a new record in successful Government financing...
...large extent. Of the many histories which have been devoted to women, perhaps this is the most enlightening. It follows the history, not of different individuals, but of women as a class through savagery to their present civilization. Why they differ from men, what they may hope to accomplish; these are the points discussed. Several points are settled, among them this: "We have constantly seen throughout this history . . . that the right to work is absolutely essential to the happiness of women. . . ." If the title is in a sense a slur, a compliment to femininity is the distinguished style and brilliant...