Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LELAND THOMPSON, 55, Mississippi-born. Chairman of the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Roy Thompson has been working in Farm Credit Administration agencies since 1933, but he is no crusader for Government controls. His aim as Chairman of the Decontrol Board: "Get things out from under price controls as quickly as possible; if we can get production going at its proper rate, competitive force can remove the necessity of Government control...
Prostigmine & Education. The aim of spastic therapy, Dr. Kabat explains, is to gain "voluntary control of muscles through a part of the brain which hasn't been injured." This is a difficult, slow process, because "it is trying to make the uninjured part of the brain learn to do something it wasn't planned to do." Prostigmine makes it easier by: 1) increasing the amount of acetylcholine, a body chemical which stimulates nervous and mental activity; 2) relaxing and strengthening the muscles...
...self-sufficient community is the aim of the project. Along with the manager's offices, grocery and drug stores will occupy the central portion of the area. Several merchants have shown willingness to undertake the shopping concessions...
...standards of living (i.e., increase their fighting strength), but will promise them prompt military aid in the event of their coming into conflict with an expanding U.S.S.R. Simultaneously, intensive anti-Soviet propaganda must be carried on throughout Europe, and extended, by radio, into the U.S.S.R. itself. "Our ultimate aim [in Europe] should be to free all the states of central and eastern Europe and the Balkans...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Writing is agony. I stay at my typewriter for eight hours every day when I'm working and keep as free as possible from all distractions for the rest of the day. I aim to do six pages a day but I'm satisfied with three. Often there are only a few lines to show...