Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Pension Scholler," is a modern comedy, the aim of which is to satirize the levity and eccentricities of modern German life. There are a large number of character parts, and the mistakes caused by misunderstandings give rise to many exceedingly humorous situations...
...aim of the work so far has been to develop new material, and to train all the men in endurance...
...most interesting parts of the present number is an editorial which tells what the editors think the Monthly should be. "The only excuse," they say, "for such a paper is, in our eyes, that it encourages thinking on literary matters." It should aim, moreover, to print only articles which are free from affectation and are in good literary form. None of the articles which I have so briefly mentioned fails to reach this standard. They all show appreciation of literary form; they are agreeably free from affectation; and they encourage thinking, if not always on purely literary matters, at least...
...second and scarcely less important aim is to secure and put to the most effective use a body of active workers. The friends of good government need stump speakers; they need workers under the district leaders; they need watchers for the polls. In all these branches of service the college graduates gave valuable help in the successful campaign of 1901. But they lacked the organization which should direct the energies of each into the most effective channel...
...GALES FERRY, June 10.--At present the chief aim of the crew is gradually to develop a good form from a slow 26 stroke to the far more difficult 32. With this end in view the eight rowed four miles down-stream in long stretches this afternoon, and paddled back over the course at a stroke which varied from 26 to 28 to the minute, except for the last half mile, when it went...