Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aim of liberal education is to turn relatively undifferentiated boys and girls into mature, intelligent, thinking, passionate, and compassionate persons: into men and women with convictions and the courage of their convictions, and possessed with the central conviction that until their dying day they must continue on an endless, fretful, feverish quest after thoughts, and more thoughts, and still more thoughts...
Such a renewal of serene calm to hectic crammers should be instituted by next exam period. Finances should not impose a handicap. In 1949, when the building was dedicated, Lamont librarian Phillip J. McNiff said, "Our aim was a reading library, rather than a research library." After spending an initial $2,500,000 to achieve this objective, it certainly seems worth $5,000 a year to preserve...
...blow, the 8,000 Thais in the stadium chanted for more blood. Sriswasdi jerked Kaeh's head down and kneed him viciously under the chin, blocked a feeble counterpunch, spun his man around and jabbed at his ribs with both elbows. Dazed, his opponent backed away. Sriswasdi took aim and kicked him in the groin, finished him off with a knee in the belly. The crowd screamed approval...
...faucets and warned: "A dripping faucet [wastes] 30? a month." Wastebaskets also caught his eye. Wrote Mansure: "When papers have missed the wastebasket and desks are littered, the cleaning operation takes as much as 75% more time per unit cleaned." His newest order: "Keep your desk neat, and your aim at the wastebasket true...
...well as economical reasons, since "the University administration thereby acts as a foil to keep the Legislature out of educational policy." Although a public educator by choice, he received his Ph.D. at privately-endowed Princeton and emphasizes that he has "no bone to pick with private education"; his aim is merely to provide a sound college education for the thousands of Massachusetts students who cannot afford to attend private colleges...