Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agriculture. In the face of a farm-prices decline begun two years ago, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has been traveling across the land explaining the Administration's ultimate aim when the present price-support law expires in 1954: flexible price supports which allow freer operation of the forces of the market place, while still giving adequate protection to the farmer. Last week the President recalled a sentence in the Republican platform to indicate what that policy would be like; "A prosperous agriculture with free and independent farmers is fundamental to the national interest...
...biggest in the National Hockey League. At 24, when many players are just breaking into the big time, rangy (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) Gordie Howe has been league scoring champ two years in a row, and this year he is after an unprecedented triple. Moreover, he is taking dead aim on the record for goals in one season-50-set by Montreal's Maurice ("Rocket") Richard in 1944-45. In Chicago last week, the largest hockey crowd (16,518) in three years turned out to see Wingman Howe and the league-leading Red Wings do their work...
...seem to disregard entirely the chief difference between the present system and the former. Instead of writing papers exclusively, or almost exclusively, for a separate course in composition, the Freshman now divides his writing between a composition course and his other courses. The aim is to establish a closer relation than existed previously between a student's writing and the subject matter of his general courses. The merits of this policy may perhaps be debated, but your position is ambiguous. You criticize General Education A on the ground that the papers are generally unrelated to the rest of the student...
...press closer to high tragedy and away from pathos, towards "the man who knows something" and away from the Willy Loman, is the aim of playwright Arthur Miller who delivered the Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture here yesterday...
...expressed his eagerness to get away from the dramatic tradition of the last 20 years which has shown how man "loses his identity or his dignity, how beauty is destroyed and only power takes its place." He added, "My aim is not to destroy the world, but to preserve it on a moral basis...