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Word: accomplishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trotsky, exiled from Russia in 1929 but still the rival in Communist hearts of Joseph Stalin. According to the State Public Prosecutor's charges and the confessions of all 17 prisoners, they had conspired with Exile Trotsky, who is now in Mexico (TIME, Jan. 25), not only to accomplish 3,500 railway wrecks in Russia in two years, but also in connivance with Japanese and German spies to cede to these countries, after a war which would unseat Dictator Stalin, vast areas of Siberia and the Ukraine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Square Deal | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...impromptu talks and three exercises in delivery are the content, along with five major speeches sandwiched between lectures on subjects like persuasion and commanding attention. The semester is capped, mirabile dictu, by a written examination. Thus in effect the sole course, English F tries to accomplish too much, skimming lightly over each topic and leaving the majority of students barely grounded in fundamentals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUBJECT WITHOUT HONOR IN ITS OWN COLLEGE | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

...project of the Senior Committee severs the Gordian knot of hoary inefficiency and greases the wheels of progress. Seniors who have had previous experience in Album management will be able to accomplish their task with less trouble and nervous palpitations. The student Council deserves credit for its timely action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALBUM ALTERATIONS | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

...sufferings involved, King Edward's resignation has much graver national and international complications. The Tories have pulled a coup d'etat by eliminating a very liberal force within the country, who by his personal interest in labor problems and social conditions in the Empire, was in a position to accomplish a great deal along humanitarian lines. David Windsor, as he will now be called, was in closer contact with the masses of England than any other King before him, and those very people who needed his attention will miss it most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LION ROARS | 12/10/1936 | See Source »

...lectures a year are not going to break their backs, even if they assume the camel's form. English A suffers more from neglect than anything else. If English A is to be recognized for what it is, the most important course in college, if it is to accomplish what it sets out to do, make competent writers, it must be served by the moguls of the Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRUEL FOR THE WEAK | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

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