Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether it is performed by pacts or by a ring of Navy steel, what the U. S. hopes to accomplish at Lima is to show itself so Good a Neighbor that 120,000,000 Latin Americans will eschew the ideas and products of neighbors which the Good Neighbor wants to keep out. On the eve of this attempt, currents and undercurrents showed the progress of the neighborly race...
...Robert A. Taft (see p. 9). Said Mrs. Roosevelt by radio: "I am very much disturbed . . . more women than men write to me suggesting that Communism may be gaining a real hold. There is stress laid upon what to fight against rather than what we should be trying to accomplish. I deplore that attitude...
This is not a direct message to undergraduates. But it is necessary for them, as well as for the donors of today, to realize the value of fluid funds if the University is to accomplish its best work. Only if Harvard authorities are given a free hand to water those fields which they regard as most fertile can the produce be maximized...
...French Communists threatening to strike rather than submit to national defense measures and British opposition flaring against the Cabinet's City policies, the Reich stands firm and united. Seemingly Fascism has once more demonstrated its ability to outmaneuver democracy because of its strong unity, speed of action, power to Accomplish Things...
...promptly forget. But this waste has a value; it shows him something dull or worthless or leads to a dead end. As Nock said further in the same article: "Useless knowledge . . . gains value only as it is forgotten. . . . So let no one be fazed by his inability to accomplish a scholastic task quickly. Part of his Harvard education is realizing that he cannot use every minute to a positive advantage. Yet he does use every minute well, because there is also a negative advantage. In wondering about the miles of knowledge which the University holds in its bosom...