Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filing into the meeting 45 minutes late, the city's nine uncompromising council-members didn't once give the impression that they might accomplish anything. Even the clock on the council chamber wall was slow...
...optimistically hoped that the moral force of the U.N. would be enough to accomplish partition. It was now clear that if the U.N. decision was to be anything but a dead letter, the commitment would have to be backed up with force...
...short weeks, the Committee hopes to promote a rally featuring nationally important speakers, to precipitate a shower of letters and telegrams on Congress, and to set off simultaneous rallies in a number of other colleges. It will be something of a miracle if the Committee can accomplish this program on an important enough scale. But it is a miracle well worth a major effort to achieve, both on the part of the Committee itself, and on the part of the entire community...
...number of ideas how to accomplish this end. We proposed to increase the normal issue from four pages to six; to run more pictures and photographic supplements; to run a column of outside news from the United Press; to expand our critical departments; and so forth. I shall not attempt to say whether our program would in fact have made the CRIMSON of that time a better paper. But we were wholly sincere in our efforts and we did, I believe, command the support of most of those editors on the news, editorial and photographic boards who took an active...
...Wallace received its official sanction yesterday from the Faculty Committee on Student Activities, and opposition of military training is its first concrete move. Mentioning an opposing political organization, program committee chairman Staughton C. Lynd '50 said, "We may not grow as quickly, but we'll last longer and accomplish more. We are more for things than against them...