Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary aim of Architect Michael Rosenauer and Interior Designer Sir Hugh Casson was to combine architectural beauty with efficiency. As a result of Rosenauers rigid design economies, an impressive 86½% of the total floor space is usable office area-an unusually high percentage for London buildings and a feature especially appreciated by British authorities, in the light of their austerity program. To save space, Rosenauer put two staircases (required by fire regulations) in the same stair well like the blades of a pair of scissors...
...overall aim was twofold: "Mass mutinies, riots and breakouts which had as their goal an eventual link-up with the Communist guerrillas and bandits in South Korea," and "direct violence designed to produce propaganda which might influence the armistice negotiations at Panmunjom." In the second of these ambitions, he succeeded only too well...
Your Jan. 12 article about Thornton Wilder gives an impression of one whose life and writings are without aim or pattern; and that impression, I believe, is correct. Wilder is the best representative of the American he describes-lonely, nomadic and insubmissive...
After careful, detailed study by his advisers, Dwight Eisenhower will begin sending a series of budget-change messages to Congress by April 1. The aim is still to balance the budget, but Joe Dodge had a word of caution: "You can't perform 60-day miracles...
...aim," says Szell, "at combining the virtuosity and polish and opulence that are characteristic of top-ranking American orchestras with the expressive abandon of typically European orchestras in their best days." And he adds: "If you give me a week, I might think of a gripe...