Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NUNS-"How much these holy virgins accomplish! How extensive and how notable the work they do, which no one else can carry out with the same mixture of virginal and maternal solicitude...
...passage of the nation's pure food laws. Sinclair was so revolted by the packing industry that he wound up the book with a prophecy that some day Chicago's great packing industry would wither away. Last week economics was doing what reformers had failed to accomplish. Armour & Co. announced that it will end its packing operations at Chicago this summer; a month ago Swift decided to do the same thing. The other Big Three packer, Wilson, shut down in 1955. With the major packers gone, Chicago will become just another regional livestock market, with small packers slaughtering...
...articulate Rotary spokesman and idea man. As Rotary's president, he will devote his time to developing more "people-to-people contact" among nations. Says he: "There is a tremendous area for the development of friendship and good will on a personal basis-something no government can accomplish. We should not be concerned with the techniques of peace, but with the will to peace...
...though the King's new affability did not accomplish it, all Belgium took it as a good omen that with his return to Belgium the brouhaha about Prince Albert's marriage showed signs of dying down. At issue was the fact that if Pope John XXIII performed the marriage at the Vatican, there could be no civil ceremony first, as Belgian law requires. Reason: since the Vatican is a sovereign state, it considers its own service to have civil status as well. "In a gesture of particular solicitude toward Belgium." the Pope last week helped to pacify...
...Luce's Time, and more than a third also look at his Life. Though some students violently criticize these two magazines--for their tendency to transform current events into a modern morality play, and for their use of irrelevant detail to lend an air of precision and accuracy to accomplish generalizations--the slick, fast-moving style of Time and Life apparently appeals even to Harvard's high intellectual level. Luce's columns are definitely the meat in the College's political sandwich...