Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cynicism and blindness to the "moral" issues of this war. A more understanding observer, President Conant, told the Jewish War Veterans last week that "The errors of youth today, if they are errors, are symptoms of their idealism." This idealism, the President said, has had peace as its single aim; it must now be broadened and focused on the maintenance of American traditions and the American way of life...
...Flanders. "Far from collapsing, the morale of our troops and of our country proved worthy of our ancestors. The heroism of the combats in Flanders and of the battles in Dunkirk belongs to history. The greatness of our military chiefs magnificently revealed itself in those days." The second aim was to break the morale of Paris from the air. "A few minutes after [last week's] bombing I saw on the spot the proud faces of our men and women workers of Paris who cannot tremble...
...Philadelphia, sponsored by the big ad agency of N. W. Ayer, 35 leading commercial artists exhibited their sideline, non-advertising art. Their somewhat defiant aim: to disprove the patronizing theory that the commercial artist is "a renegade who rides in a Lincoln-Zephyr V-12," whereas an "artist" is a "pure spirit who munches crusts in a garret." Say they: "They're often one and the same person." The show's 40 items were the work of artists whose main problem is to entice consumers with dream women, seductive bathtub scenes, irresistible automobiles, travel-teasing landscapes, nostalgic farm...
...French-speaking people, the magnet of her powerful neighbor (10% of Canadian university graduates make their living in the U. S.). For her greatest domestic problem, the French minority, he sees a solution in the close union of England and France officially announced as a war aim and whichever way the war breaks, John MacCormac believes Canada is on her way to becoming a first-class power-either as the refuge of a beaten Britain or the central unit of a renewed British Commonwealth...
...West Palm Beach, Fla., E. Y. Keith, who once had an accident when he leaned from his truck to stuff papers into mailboxes, invented a news gun. Now he sits in his truck, takes aim, pops rolled-up papers directly into boxes...