Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toastmaster's chair sat Elihu Root, who in less than three months will attain to the honorable estate of octogenarian. In the chair of the guest of honor sat Chauncey M. Depew, who became an octogenarian more than a decade...
...long as there are men, nobody can pacify them all. The best we can hope to do is to find a middle course of social compromise. What I am determined to attain is that the Fascist Party shall disturb public order less than any other. But absolute peace never existed in Italy, at least...
...rich and powerful countries in ancient times, but they are all gone. They were as transitory as the great clouds that traverse their sepulchres. A permanent greatness is only seen in sublimity of spirit manifested in enduring forms of beauty and power, Japan's ambition has always been to attain a height of spiritual serenity. Japan looked and still looks to America as the torchbearer of Western civilization, of the emancipation of humanity and the brotherhood of man. Will Japan's hopes he fulfilled...
...very well just yet. George Beban had an idea that he could create a substitute. He collected the cast for this play and interwove scenes with the actual players on the stage and the scenes from the studio on the film. Though the experiment is obviously too cumbersome to attain a widespread representation, it makes a magnetic novelty for picture stages and screens in the cities. It is understood that Mr. Beban has already tried it outside of Manhattan and will take his reels and his troupe on tour. The story is moderately entertaining with Mr. Beban playing an Italian...
...years ago, had the same power as the new U.S. Navy boat-four Liberty motors of 400 horsepower each. It weighed 4,000 Ib. more because it lacked metal construction in wings and hull. It had a maximum speed of only 75 m.p.h., while the new boat will easily attain 100 m.p.h. Finally the NC-4's range was only 1,600 mi. with every tank brimming with gasoline, while the new boat will have a range of 2,600 mi. Incidentally, this is the greatest range ever embodied in any airplane. True, Macready and Kelly flew...