Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permanent secretariat of the Common wealth - in other words, the permanent center of a permanent power-bloc which, so Curtin thought, would insure his country's security in the remote Pacific. Well aware that Canada's Mackenzie King had long opposed the idea, Curtin stubbornly pursued his aim, said: "If I cannot have four brothers, I will make do with three...
...Located in Nashville, Fisk University is bigger (573 students, 47 on faculty) and better off than most other U.S. Negro colleges, is typical of the best of them. Its chief educational aim: to prepare Negroes to make themselves economically independent. A Fisk specialty: the study of foreign Negro peoples. Fisk's International Student Center may make an important contribution to postwar U.S. relations with Africa and the Caribbean islands. The University's faculty is about half Negro, half white. Fisk is one of the few U.S. colleges whose enrollment went up last year...
Other Dominion Prime Ministers talked of such complex matters as unified foreign policy, Dominion spheres of influence, but Sir Godfrey's aim was simple. He wanted only the right people to exploit a virgin land...
...month art lovers will again be able to see all of the Metropolitan's great art. With unusual moderation Mayor LaGuardia himself had said it: "I won't say [Hitler] is not coming over, but I'm sure he can't come with enough to aim at the pictures and hit the mark...
...philosophically unified program of academic studies . . . that would serve as means. . . . We [ask you to] assure us that none of these apparent implications [of obligatory unity of thought] form any part of your practical intentions." Hutchins answered that he did not wish and had no power to enforce his aim on the University, but when he and his professors finished their interchange of letters, the six were still dissatisfied. They appealed to their colleagues, and 115 signed a petition to the Board of Trustees asking for assurance that Hutchins will not drastically alter the nature of the institution founded...