Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to teach creative writing to 28 enthusiastic undergraduates. They soon pronounced him a "right guy." He lectured to his class at top speed, carried on bull sessions in his study far into the night. He told his students: "If you really want to write, to be something, to aim as high as Shakespeare, you'll find English courses absolutely useless." He dropped a student from his class because "She's too young." To the rest he suggested plots, explained tricks of his trade, read and criticized 100,000 words of their writings. A co-ed exclaimed...
trust. It bore the first onslaughts of criticism, lawsuits, public investigation by people to whom the unfamiliar monster was "a conspiracy, a dark plot born in greed."* Greedy men exist, observes Nevins, but they seldom pile up colossal fortunes. Rockefeller himself said that his great aim was "achievement," and, says Biographer Nevins, "the statement was true." He adds: "We must not forget that Rockefeller began to give as soon as he began to earn...
...with racks for a few medium bombs. These droned over high, in small but incessant waves. They made air-raid alarms last longer than ever, interrupting civilian life and preying upon morale more persistently than ever. Bombs were dropped more indiscriminately than ever, yet sometimes with more wickedly calculated aim. For every now & then a lone pilot would cut his motor, glide daringly down and plant his load in a thoroughfare crowded with pedestrians going to work, on a cathedral, a university, a hospital, a railroad station. The Germans called these the "triphammer" blows of "total air war." The British...
...drive had a double purpose-to keep the British from driving in at Ethiopia's rear, to back up an Italian drive at the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan's rear. An attack on the Sudan, perhaps starting from Kassala, where Italian forces have long been massed, would probably aim at Khartoum, where the branches of the Nile converge...
...ideals unhampered and unembarrassed by conduct on the part of any of its members which tends to damage its reputation. . . . Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the university's freedom to go its way toward its lofty aim should, in ordinary self-respect, withdraw of their own accord from university membership. . . . No reasonable person would insist upon remaining a member of a church, for instance, who spent his time in publicly denying and denouncing its principles and doctrines...