Attainment

Examples

• A number of schemes had floated in men's minds for the attainment of that end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So they fell into the confusion of making immediate and detailed proposals that have nothing to do with the attainment of their ideal. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Life at any stage short of attainment of this goal is merely an unfolding toward it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It has pleased Providence to postpone the attainment of this object. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• What was needed was some device to serve as an accurate speed governor--and the attainment of this essential device is the one thing on which accurate time measuring depends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If society is interested in one of these things rather than another, science shows the way of attainment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Reason, again, is solely directed to the attainment of truth, and careless of money and reputation. Plato. The Republic.
• If, however, he had a great end of restoration in view, it was not in his power to employ great means for its attainment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It seems to me, Shirley, that nobody should write poetry to exhibit intellect or attainment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To the attainment of this higher knowledge the second education is directed. Plato. The Republic.
• The later construction has been designed for a minimum speed of twenty-five knots an hour, with a possible attainment of thirty knots or over, under favorable conditions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In many respects the attainment of these somewhat conflicting ends was the most perplexing of the problems which confronted Mr. Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In addition we have an explicit fear of the hampering influence of a state-conducted and state-regulated education upon the attainment of these ideas. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To a certain small number of men and women the attainment of a world peace has become the supreme work in life, has become a religious self-devotion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Attainment of this knowledge requires persistent and concentrated attention to objective materials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I took advantage now of my attainments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Ericsson, an engineer of the ripest experience, skill, and attainments, who had then come to make his home in the United States. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Mrs. Skimpole sighed, I thought, as if she would have been glad to strike out this item in the family attainments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We have handed over the government of a nation of people to a set of lawyers, to a class of men who deal in the most verbal and unreal of all human attainments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He is a man of attainments and of captivating manners. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mary's is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother's, and, from his attainments and principles, worthy of the connection. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Doctor Laws, who afterward became President of the State University of Missouri, was an inventor of unusual ability and attainments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Nor were his political attainments less conspicuous than his philosophical. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Watt was the proper precursor of the nineteenth century inventions, as in him were combined the power and attainments of a great scientist and the genius of a great mechanic. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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