Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth accomplishes this aim, in great part, through the activity of the Dartmouth Christian Union, large enough to serve as the social service center for the entire Hanover community, and high enough in prestige to draws the captain of the football team to its presidency...
...fraternity feuds, he made a revealing comment on present Administration policy. During the past year and a half its most significant projects have been concerned with the expansion of the University's religious facilities. In spite of occasional dissent, most students have at least tacitly approved the University's aim to bring religious facilities to a par with resources in other departments...
...brilliant successes of [Mendes-France's] improvised diplomacy are well known. France has returned to a policy of national Realpolitik on the prewar model, with opportunism its only principle and immediate national advantage its only aim. For those other European nations that have survived the last great attempt at this sort of Realpolitik in the Hitler years, nothing remains except to follow France more or less unwillingly along this path. Perhaps anything is better than the continuation of a mendacious abnegation of responsibility. The "new style" of French diplomacy has the advantage of honesty. Europe has lost nothing...
...Scott suddenly came upon the huge-tusked giant and shouldered his rifle, only to find the sights waterclogged. By sliding back into the river, he sought to escape the shrieking charge. The monster, possibly distracted by Scott's Borana tracker, turned aside. Scott finally crept close enough to aim between the elephant's eyes. But his admiration for the handsome old tusker dulled his urge to kill. He shot high, the old bull crashed off, and Colonel Scott returned to the States, well content that the big one got away...
Does Cornell achieve this aim? Konvitz is not quite sure and apparently more than a little dubious...