Word: attain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that the Lowell music library has already won a reputation as one of the best in the East. No one who has played on the House football field will deny that a victory for Lowell means a great deal to the players and to spectators. If we can attain at least a community of spirit, of which this is evidence, and if we can provide facilities which would otherwise be lacking, and of this ability there is no doubt, we must be satisfied...
...Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis last week worsted Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira two up at golf. There was no other progress. Said inflexible Japanese Chief Delegate Rear Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, broadcasting around the world to the Japanese people, "I am in no hurry. I will do my best to attain the Government's objectives and live up to Japan's expectations." These expectations: Britain and the U. S. shall accord Japan naval parity, scrapping the 5-5-3 ratio...
...story moves slowly. Its static quality is increased by the fact that it is chopped into four major scenes in which the principal characters stand still and talk. Their talk is enough to make Loyalties an interesting picture which, because of its theme, may attain as much notice from the public as more pretentious importations...
...outside change and movement is reflected upon them and they drift rapidly away from their parents. Carl, the eldest and the pet of the family and the town, drifts through force of habit into marriage with a childhood sweetheart and after a few years of struggle to attain a richness and response which his wife cannot give him, he settles down to a life of intellectual stagnation and sexual frustration as Superintendent of Schools in the small neighboring town of Geneva. Dorothy, the simple, beautiful model-daughter, makes a highly successful early marriage and edges into her comfortable niche...
...arriving in Cambridge on one of the Associated Harvard Club scholarships are expected to keep their record at University Hall free from probation, attain Dean's List standing and provide themselves with jobs to cover the major expenses for the college year. Quite often the contrary is true, as a large majority of such men holding these awards come to Cambridge from southern or western high schools poorly equipped for the unfamiliar methods of study at Harvard. A substantial percentage go on probation at the November Hours and, with the additional burden of financial worries, are sorely pressed for chance...