Word: attainments
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...path to the right or the sharper but less windswept one to the left. The thrills are much the same either way. At the top, the Alpinist may experience what one veteran climber called "the feeling of release and mystic union upon reaching the goal." All climbers do not attain that experience. Last month, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard near the top and froze to death...
...Yard entries, they must introduce an average of 70 men to the system and to each other, then run the election. They have already agreed on method, among themselves, but the presence of many proctors appointed this year and the charter's newness will make success harder to attain...
Since boys are often slower than girls in learning to talk as well as to write, Dr. Greene believes that possibly "we expect too much of boys ... in their early years. Our expectations that they should attain the same level of speech performance as girls of like age, when they have not attained the same level of nervous and muscular maturation, may often result in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, and cause [speech disorders...
...Senate seat. For a freshman Senator, the new arrival had an impressive background. As a top-flight international lawyer, official Republican Party foreign-policy adviser and member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, junior Senator Dulles already had a reputation that many a senior Senator would never attain. In his first senatorial statement, Dulles announced his support of the Atlantic pact and an arms program to back it up, but reserved decision on how much should be spent on arms. Dulles will serve until December 1. He told reporters that he had "no expectation" of becoming a candidate...
...also poetically, that is to say, not in their prose function. These poems were conceived with commas, as 'comma poems,' in which the commas are an integral and essential part of the medium: regulating the poem's verbal density and time movement: enabling each word to attain a fuller tone value, and the line movement to become more measured. The method may be compared to Seurat's* architectonic and measured pointillism-where the points of colour are themselves the medium of expression, and therefore functional and valid, as medium of art and as medium of personality...