Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found that the over-supply of professionally trained men has decreased their average income; that men who make fruitful use of technical education could accomplish fields as much in non-professional fields with desirable dispersion of brilliance. The present fallacious reasoning, according to Dr. Clark, attributes to education a pecuniary success which in reality is identical in source with the conquest of the education itself...
...symbolically-minded said it was practically foreordained that oft-rescued Claret should rescue the distrait Courtney. Impalpable ministers of safety and service hover about the master of the Minnewaska. To accomplish this feat of systematic searching the ship was diverted 341 miles from its track. The Atlantic Transport Company wirelessed the Captain, "You were fortunate to carry out rules of sea and save souls, no matter conditions." The plane was not saved...
From Paris to Manhattan by air is a feat that has stimulated and perturbed Frenchmen since the days of lost Heroes Nungesser and Coli. Last week Lieut. Paulin Paris, Mechanician Marat, Radioman Cadou set out to accomplish it in a hydroplane. They reached the island of Fayal in the Azores safely. Then they refuelled, prepared to hop to Bermuda, to Manhattan...
Replied His Majesty, altering only the sex of the metaphor: "Afghanistan, too, stands ready to accomplish all brotherly duties toward Turkey...
...Group came to the university. Dismayed to find that the art object had been smashed in transit, 12-year-old Lorado who had accompanied his father to superintend the uncrating, seized the fragments and fitted them cleverly into their proper places, a feat his father had been unable to accomplish. Sculptor Taft's most famed work is probably the Fountain of Time on the Midway, Chicago...