Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Either a wartime basis, an attack by all concerned to accomplish an immediate end, or the frank recognition that in the free and gradual development of man's creative powers lies the hope of a distant future...
...water had begun to wet the batteries, releasing chlorine gas. Says the escape manual of the U. S. Navy, father of the submarine: "It is emphasized that if attempted individual escape is delayed until the first stages of asphyxia have developed, it will probably be too late successfully to accomplish...
Paradoxical though the shortage is, it is precisely what the Government's cotton policy was supposed to accomplish. On the 1937-38 tremendous crop of 19,000,000 bales the Government offered to lend farmers 9? per Ib. The market prices went as low as 8?, with the result that the Government's cotton holding jumped to 11,400,000 bales. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace would like to sell some of his cotton now, but the Southern Senators, riding a rising market for their constituents, will presumably see to it that no Government lint is released so long...
Struve suggested that if the University of Texas provided the observatory and the University of Chicago a staff to run it, they might accomplish more in such a cooperative enterprise than either could separately. Forthright Bob Hutchins forthwith picked up his telephone, called U. of T.'s president, got a favorable answer, and soon the project was under...
...size of the British Army. France long ago let it be known that she was interested in getting British cannon fodder as well as British cannon. What Napoleon, Tsar Nicholas I and Boer General Christian De Wet all failed to force Britain to do, Adolf Hitler may yet accomplish...