Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abolition of the present method of selecting the Freshman Union Committee on the ground that is an undemocratic designation of student officials, and further, it is inadequate in scope to accomplish the many tasks open to such a group...
...with Magellan's execution of his Spanish captains and South American natives). Author Zweig asks the jury: "Is it not the eternal doom of man that his most memorable achievements should so often be stained with blood, and that those who are harshest are those who usually accomplish the greatest deeds...
...putting them on ice. To give Sonja presentable, even spectacular, settings in which to display her twinkling, silver-bladed eurythmy is a set designer's holiday. But to blend a plot with her icebound talents is something not even a Zanuck budget seems to be able to accomplish. Happy Landing makes Miss Henie a million-dollar sideshow on a cheapskate circuit...
Said Mr. Hogan: "It was my understanding from what Mr. Jackson said that if all the parties concerned signed the consent decree there would be no indictments by the Milwaukee grand jury." Lawyer Hogan quoted Lawyer Jackson as saying that the jury would be told: "We have accomplished all we wanted you jurors to accomplish and we recommend that you drop your proceedings." Concluded Lawyer Hogan: "Jackson said further that there could be no decree unless all were willing to sign. I was unwilling to sign...
...Vagabond is one of those energetic souls who has a healthy dislike for people who spend their lives telling others how to conduct themselves and yet never manage to accomplish anything worthwhile themselves. Of a temperament eager and alive to things new, and yet not blind to what has come down from ages and generations past, he delights in old works which have so breathed the breath of life that they still cast their influence on people today, and he takes pleasure in the men who interpret these old works to a new age, a new generation, in the light...