Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first year, the Bureau has already served 300 undergraduates. Although the Supervisors aim at teaching proper study habits, tutoring is given if needed. Professor Merk indicated that the Bureau is anxious to assist the student who is "willing to make an honest effort to do his own work after he has received help...
Struck by the lack of a determined goal towards which each undergraduate should aim, the Committee set up its definition of a liberal education as one which "frees human beings from ignorance and prejudice" and gives them "the intellectual tools with which they can confront new problems successfully." To the Committee four years of college should mean more than a number of courses strait-jacketed into a field of concentration. Rather they should have a "definite content...
...atmosphere to a height of 24 miles before starting down. The earth's rotation had to be calculated in elevating (for range) and laying (for deflection) Big Bertha, for as the earth turned Paris toward the shells she lofted, it tended to make Bertha overshoot. At best her aim could not be relied on within a target area smaller than two miles long by three-quarters of a mile wide, and even the weather made a big difference. Nowadays, greater accuracy is attained over greater distances by airplanes carrying far greater projectiles and carrying them oftener. Big Bertha...
Last week, Lawyer-Utilitarian-Broadcaster-Cinemagnate-Publisher Aylesworth, like the magical Merlin himself, was gone again. He resigned his job on the World-Telegram, and, standing before Justice Francis Martin of the Supreme Court of New York, at 53 was admitted to the bar. His aim: to practice corporation law and specialize in litigation involving labor and taxation disputes...