Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more playing fields near the Stadium. Yale agreed with the Harvard plans, and promised to send its intramural champions to meet Harvard teams. On January 15, President Lowell spoke: "Intercollegiate sports resemble the world of pro baseball leagues . . . the games in the Coliseum in Rome. . . .Surely as the aim in instruction is to give education to all, that in athletics should be the physical culture of all." Lowell's backing gave Bingham the momentum to cary out his plan in the following 25 years...
...optical machinery in a rented curling rink. The workers, from Leitz's famed optical works at Wetzlar, began setting up lens-grinders, buffers, drills, in preparation for moving into a new $200,000 factory near by. There they will assemble Leica cameras, photo accessories, special lenses, and aim for a share of rearmament's precision optical orders...
...Ridgway. Ancient Dream. At 5:12 p.m., the six Foreign Ministers, flanked by the U.S.'s Dean Acheson and Britain's Anthony Eden, made their way through a battery of klieg lights to an E-shaped conference table. France's Robert Schuman tapped for silence. "Our aim," he said, "is common security and the safeguard of peace." Quai d'Orsay functionaries, inscrutable as croupiers, pushed stacks of documents like so many chips across the green baize tables. Diplomats went for their pens...
...change. It became the U.S. brand of Progressive Education. For just as the world learns by experience, so do children. Mere memory is therefore not enough: children have to act as well as read, to solve everyday problems, as if their school were society in miniature. The aim of education is not knowledge alone, but growth-and growth is the important thing in John Dewey's world...
...nearest thing to a Wimbledon tournament for young musicians is Belgium's International Concours. This year the aim of the contest was to crown the best young (15-30) pianist in the world, and by last week a field of 71 hopefuls from all over the world-Russia excepted*-had been weeded down to twelve survivors...