Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they have labored in obscurity to serve. Reader Hull, like any good scientist, must realize that the distant goal has not been made unattainable by the latest development. He and the rest to whom the presidency of Columbia University was the ultimate need merely and slightly to shift their aim...
Anxious as ever to protect their young from the doctrinal indifference of the secular world, the delegates resolved that the Synod should aim during the next 25 years to get 50% of its children into parochial schools. Present percentage: 27.8%, in 1,090 parochial schools. For Missouri Synod Lutheran theological students they voted a new $1,500,000 senior college. They also agreed to raise $2,500,000 for world relief...
...raised her three children by the doctrine: "Always aim to do the right thing...
What the U.S. Wants. Without quibbles, the delegates agreed that their general aim was to promote the "reconstruction and development of European nations," first by selfhelp, as Secretary Marshall had insisted, and then through "the support of the United States, which would be decisive." The U.S., not a participant in the conference, remained well in the background. However, the delegates were learning what the U.S. meant by European selfhelp. Ramadier gave a luncheon for U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, who has become the world's foremost foe of trade barriers. After that, the delegates began to talk...
...role Philip would play in British life. Although he had no constitutional power of his own, Albert exercised enormous influence over British politics by patiently and studiously advising Victoria. A royal husband, he wrote, "should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife. He should aim at no power, shun all contention and continuously and anxiously watch every part of the public business in order to assist and advise...