Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...improvements and several added features will appear on sale Saturday, December 9. It had been announced that the volume would go on sale December 1. This late date had been determined in accordance with the policy of the editorial board this year to make accuracy rather than speed its aim, but conditions at the printer's office have caused the further delay of a few days. The entire book has been on the press for a week so that the time of publication is now certain...
...should be borne in mind that there are two points of view from which to look at this matter of the reception of a guest. So far we have considered only that of the receiver; but there is also that of the received. Each should aim to please the other by self-sacrifice and thoughtfulness. The guest, no less than the host, is under obligation at any friendly party. For several years past Yale has been a better host and a kindlier visitor than Harvard; we have been the considerate half of all the parties--both those at New Haven...
...Aim high! It's no harder on your gun to knock the feathers off an eagle than to kill a skunk," was the advice which "Billy" Sunday gave to over 20,000 students in the big tabernacle on "Student Night" last evening. The big tabernacle was crowded to capacity and fully 10,000 were turned away at the most notable service so far of the "Billy" Sunday campaign. Delegations from every educational institution in and nearby Boston were present. After the opening hymn each delegation gave its cheer. The singing by the huge choir, particular the "echo-singing" across...
...travelling through your country," he said, "I have noticed that you lack unity of purpose. You seem anxious to make some change but you do not know what. Your first aim is to get more money, it seems, whereas it should be to put the money which you have, and which you will get, to some use so that good may be derived from...
...Billy Thaw and Rockwell came over me, 3,700 metres they must have been; I tried to follow them but found it difficult. Up by A-- I recrossed the lines, taking a look at T-- and returned over M--. I met the same reception, but their aim was wild, two or three hundred metres above, and a scattering way under me. Nary a Boche sailing over that misty...