Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foundation for his particular work next year. But wheedling the Rockefeller Foundation for money is in vain. Its program is definite, although by no means inflexible. Their trustees, with John D. Rockefeller Jr. at their head, decide on a year's program; their administrators, organized by President Vincent, accomplish that program...
Lueli knows that when a man loses his god it is likely that he himself will soon be lost. He grows morose. Mr. Fortune rebuilds the hut, sets things to rights, tries to encourage his acolyte. But he can accomplish nothing. Man and master are spiritually wasting away. The man's duty grows clear. He must restore Lueli...
...keep Harvard men in touch with the University is an ideal often proposed; to accomplish it is a large but most important task. With the Committee in operation, no graduate need ignorantly compare favorably or unfavorably, the "good old days" with a present which is doing its best to communicate with him. That deep-rooted interest which graduates take in their university is a matter outside the ken of the undergraduate; but he has every reason to be grateful that after graduation there will be a medium through which not only will the University be able to speak...
...select their broom, and will make arrangements so that they can get the broom at the best possible price. It will advise one department as to what broom has proved useful elsewhere. In fact, is is here first for service, economies are a secondary consideration. It plans to accomplish both of these purposes with as little red tape and friction as possible...
...Cunard Building in Manhattan, with its illuminated ceiling and walls, was cited as an example of what architects and mural painters can accomplish together...