Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main virtue of "The Lady Has Plans" is that while Nazi spies, hidden blueprints and intrigue abound throughout, they are at all times kept subservient to the main aim of being amusing. The result is a lightweight comedy which has Lisbon and the war as a background but no pretensions to social significance. It is, in fact, concerned mainly with the attempts of various espionage agents to uncover Paulette Goddard's back. They think she is a certain woman spy who has had U. S. naval blueprints tattooed on her back, and they spend a good deal of the picture...
Unlike concentrators in some subjects, those who select Biology for their field usually do so with the definite aim of entering one of three occupations following graduation; medicine, teaching, and government research, with medicine takng about 70 per cent of the group...
...caused no sweeping changes in the department. A sound basic training in the field is the main aim at present. This year Chem 46, physical and quantitative analysis, was given to premed students hoping to enter medical school after three years. And chem 2, an organic chemistry course usually requiring a full year, was covered this year as a half course...
...chief aim of Mr. Jones's testimony was to create an impression 'that he had done his utmost-that any failure of accomplishment ought to be chalked up against somebody else...
...aim will be the gradual modification of the elective system. "One of the evils of a college education at the present time," he points out, "is its diffiseness. The elective system was good in so far as it was designed to encourage freedom, but it has been abused to such an extent that we have lost a sense of unity in our work. To my mind, we must go back to one central idea for a curriculum...