Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts who can give them an understanding of the geographical and cultural character of the area in which Burmese is spoken. Lecturers, seminars, discussion groups, movies are being combined to familiarize the boys with all major aspects of the natural and human scenery of the road to Mandalay. The aim is to equip them so that when they get on that road they will be able to talk sense with the local people in their own tongue...
...Yale expert is greying, tweedy Professor Leonard Bloomfield, who riles old-fashioned language teachers a good deal. Some think that if they could teach soldiers (who take their lessons seriously) 15 hours a week they could produce speakers as fast as do linguisti-cians. Some say that if the aim is to train men to handle literature, the old grammar-ridden methods are superior. Bloomfield answers with a sharp no. He puts all his chips on learning to speak first, even if the eventual aim is to read...
...this aim, big & little Germans seemed wholly agreed. The big-and therefore effective-Germans divided into two leading groups on how it can be achieved...
...Cheer (M.G.M.) is not to be confused with the crisp, memorable As Thousands Cheer which Irving Berlin and Moss Hart brought to Broadway a decade ago. M.G.M. reportedly paid $25,000 for that show and its bull's-eye title back in 1935, but has taken its own aim from there on. The MGMarksmen ring no resounding bell, but they do bag 1) an average musical wartime romance (Private Gene Kelly v. Colonel's-Daughter Kathryn Grayson), 2) a brisk, hefty variety show featuring a clutch of M.G.M. stars and three bands (Kay Kyser, Bob Crosby, Benny Carter...
Today adult students can take integrated courses over a period of years, can aim at a rounded liberal education. In the process they have the benefit of deanly aid and close to an all-star faculty...