Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whittle his plan down to a three-product trial run (eggs, potatoes, shorn wool) and come back for the rest in two years. But even that was too much for the House. "I am afraid of the plan," shouted Fair Dealer Mike Monroney of Oklahoma. "If we can accomplish this trick of high producers' prices and low consumers' prices without the outpouring of billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury, then we have discovered something as great as . . . perpetual motion...
...airport, reporting on the Paris meeting, Acheson greeted the President soberly: "I'm afraid we didn't accomplish too much." At his press conference two days later he went into more detail. A newsman asked: "Was the conference a failure or a success?" The Secretary of State replied sharply: "Why do we have to take a dichotomy and say it is a success or a failure?" Big Four parleys, he explained in his precise way, are no longer enough in themselves to achieve striking changes or to create new crises. Like steam gauges which indicate how much pressure...
...accomplish this, Conant said, "first of all the citizen must become a real enthusiast about our great democratic experiment; he must be eager to forward those ideals which are the premises of the experiment itself. Secondly, he must work at the task of making his belief manifest almost daily in the course of his regular life...
Dana had also furthered the educational experimentation which had characterized the 325-student Liberal Arts college for decades. The "Olivet Policy" had taught "self-realization" and social perception and had used occasionally unorthodox methods to accomplish this...
...essential that the European governments, regardless of how much or how little they control their respective national economies, have clearly in mind what they are trying to accomplish, and shape all their policies to the ends in view. This means planning. But it does not require any government to increase or decrease already existing controls over its own citizens. However, we believe that in the end this kind of planning will result in fewer rather than more controls, because it contributes to prosperity, and prosperity discourages regimentation, while depression invites...