Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal Festival Concert Hall will be permanent. Supposedly, the Hall is as acoustically perfect as any building, intended to seat 3,300 spectators, a symphony orchestra of 100, and a choir of 250, can be. The Hall wears a double skin; inside the first wall there is another, the aim being to keep the building's concert hall completely free of outside noise. The double wall will even make it possible to tune the concert hall...
BRIDGES: "General, is it in your opinion the aim of the Kremlin to destroy or take over the whole free world...
...Good Companion. By the early autumn of 1945, Perón was taking dead aim on the following February's presidential election. But World War II had just ended; a powerful tide of Argentine democracy suddenly welled up and threatened to swamp him. In the press,_in the street, in the universities, the voices of freedom stilled under the war-long state of siege now spoke up, loud & clear. Perón's reply was to arrest 1,000 leading Argentine liberals, conservatives and intellectuals. In the resulting outburst of public indignation, President Farrell was compelled to arrest...
Though meat controls were the cattlemen's main target, the Administration feared that the meatmen were linked up with the potent cotton bloc to blast the entire price control program, now up for renewal by Congress. One cattleman admitted that "our aim is to kill all price controls...
Charging that bad recruiting of students, including false promises to athletes by misinformed alumni, is the biggest source of irritation, the committee proposes revisions in the present admissions system. These aim at keeping recruiting alumni in closer touch with the administration and undergraduates...