Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everyone," he says, "has a right to grouse about English A" because too few people have been let in on the secret of its aim. It seeks to improve not only writing but also reading and thinking, with which writing must be inevitably connected. English A is therefore a synthesis of literary and non-literary elements. As the sole course in the humanities that is directly specified for a degree, it must especially emphasize its literary side in wartime when science and technology are beamed upon and the "liberal tradition" is shunned. That is why English A section men discuss...
...week six top aircraft executives of the East-including Guy Vaughan of Curtiss-Wright, Glenn Martin of Martin, Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft-packed their bags and entrained for California. They went West to meet Pacific Coast producers and set up a new National Air craft War Production Council. Aim: to help cut production red tape for the whole airplane industry...
...British had succeeded in compressing the front somewhat. The Germans claimed that this was just what they wanted. Berlin radio spoke of "the achieve ment of final union between Rommel's forces and those of Arnim," and added: "The original aim of a long prepared plan of operation has thus been achieved." Rommel was reported to have set up new headquarters at El Djem, far north of General Patton's main efforts...
...with the greatest emphasis, that if, at the conclusion of war, our rights are not respected and our long and passionate devotion to freedom is not taken into consideration, all Poles, irrespective of religious or political creed, will be united to the last man to resist any claims which aim at the sovereignty of our country, from whatever quarter they might be raised...
...thing: get rid of the Boche, and we back the man we're most certain is going to do it. You should sit as I have for two years around tables plotting with Socialists, Communists, priests, extreme Rightists, extreme Leftists, employers, workers, all friends together with one aim-France's liberation...