Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obverse is also true. There are millions of Britons who have been taught to revile the consequences of the harsh Victorian economy, and who are convinced that the Tory aim is to restore the privileges of the governing class...
...drive and considerable assurance - the success type, if ever there was one - Marples is today the enlightened managing director of a big London civil engineering and building business. Marples' specialty is housing. The Tories, with the re-introduction of free enterprise, aim to build 300,000 houses a year. In the big debate on housing last fall, Churchill called on Marples, whose success against the formidable Bevan on that occasion gave him a political standing overnight...
...university's primary aim is to make money on football, then it should invest some of its capital in a professional team such as the Chicago Bears. Harvard is an educational institution; its reputation is built on its education, and only fluctuations in the standard of education will effect that reputation in the long run. If football can be a part of education without creating an elite group in the student body or damaging students' academic careers, so much the better. It will matter little what teams we play in addition to our traditional rivals or what our record...
...around Boston suspected that the dogs were being doped. They paid the department to examine the urine of the winners for stimulants or sedatives and to do research into dope. The information found was revealed only to the owners and used, technically, in the department's classrooms. "Our prime aim," says Dr. Ford, "is still to educate...
...have done road maps and charts for history books and every other sort of map you can think of," he says, "but my whole aim in life has been to close the gap between map and land." To do this Raisz has developed a unique process of making landform maps, which show the exact physical nature of the land, from aerial photographs taken by specially-equipped Army planes. To date he has completed aerial landform maps of Canada and Arabia, and is at work on one of North Africa. Each one of these maps, which he does on contract...