Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a house, fully described in fiction and partly pictured in ads, is today a reality in the laboratories that are moving deeply into the coming age of electronics -the age that is ushering in a second Industrial Revolution. The first revolution taught man to build machines to accomplish tasks far beyond the power of his own muscles. Now, through electronics he is learning to endow his mechanical monsters with a sensory complex something like his own-eyes, ears, even a brain of sorts-so that they automatically perform his workaday chores and take on thousands of complicated new tasks...
...Future economic-development aid should be offered as easy-term loans rather than as grants, and should be financed out of a revolving fund that Congress would replenish as needed (estimated first-year need: about $500 million). Such a fund, argued Dulles, could "accomplish more with less expenditure" than the present rigid system of year-by-year, country-by-country appropriations...
...radical approach of calling a halt to the perpetual merry-go-round that surprises the economists. The present method of circular borrowing-to-repay-borrowing would probably accomplish almost equivalent results to those of the new scheme, which is, in essence, to stop all borrowing and repayment...
...Sheehan had solved one of modern chemistry's most baffling problems. During World War II a thousand chemists working in 39 laboratories in the U.S. and Britain spent an estimated $20 million trying to accomplish it. One researcher succeeded, but he could not figure out how he had done it and could never do it again. Another group produced a minute quantity, but by methods too complicated for practical production...
...telephoned Ike's headquarters in Thomasville, Ga. to advise acceptance of the change. An all-out push to restore the original wording, they argued, would inevitably bring on a damaging congressional brawl. Unenthusiastically Ike said O.K., issued a statement that the Senate text seemed "intended and designed to accomplish the purposes outlined by the President." Probable result: the Democratic version will pass both houses with the near unanimity that the President fervently wants...