Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimate aim of the plan, for months secretly abrewing among Rockefeller's high-powered brain-trusters: by mixing business (which would be handled by a special corporation) and philanthropy, to expand other countries' production, especially of food, and thus to increase their capacity to buy what the U.S. has to sell. If it worked in Brazil, where Rockefeller proposed to begin in a relatively small way, living standards would be raised, an extensive middle class would come into existence, and there would be an end to talk of U.S. and exploitation...
...aim was high: "To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events." In modern journalism there had been many attempts to hit this target; most of the tries (like Midweek Pictorial) had been faltering. The editors, gathered in a 51st-floor room in Manhattan, wanted a picture magazine that could keep pace with, and even accelerate, the swift advance of camera and printing techniques. They put out two trial issues (called Dummy and Rehearsal) and were still looking about for a better name than Show-Book. Shortly before their first deadline they found it, bought...
...Personal Aim. In Raritan Township, N.J., Albert Robinson, haled into court for throwing rocks at Eugene Michael's car, pleaded not guilty, declared: "I didn't throw rocks at the car; I threw them at Michael...
Because it is written solely for the edification of our editors, the Washington Memorandum is painfully frank. It is not, however, "secret." TIME readers receive the full benefit of its guidance and information. Its aim 'is to delineate the behind-the-scenes activities that motivate Government issues and Government men. As a special service for TIME editors, it tries hard to be well and correctly informed on the issues that matter in the nation's capital - which is precisely what TIME tries to be on the issues that matter all over the world...
...plans for research in the physiological and psychological divisions are as yet indefinite because of the readjustment and lack of critical personnel, the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory is looking forward to intensive basic research in aural rehabilitation for deafness in war causalities of which there are 40,000. "The ultimate aim of this work is to find out how the car works," Professor Stevens remarked and added that a great deal was still unknown in this field of research...