Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overnight handicaps-in addition to writing the condition books (i.e., the daily racing programs)-for the four New York tracks. On the basic principle that three pounds of weight equals one length in a mile race (with due allowance for individual horses' ability to carry weight) his figures aim to produce dead heats or at least photo-finishes in every handicap race...
This is the story, simple and moving as a child's nightmare, of Peter Taylor's first novel, A Woman of Means. By keeping his aim modest and his voice down, Author Taylor has written a good, if not a major, novel. One flaw: the stepmother's crackup is too feebly foreshadowed; when it comes it is as unexpected and as nearly incredible to the reader as it was to the boy. The boy, however, is a bright little minnow, dragged flopping and flashing out of a dark pool of childhood, one of the most vivid children...
...orchestra or sing in the glee club with the best professional direction, so a student should be able to do water colors or model with the aid of really competent guidance. A studio open to all students with a professional painter or sculptor in charge is a desirable aim...
...Seanlon plan's basic aim is to make the workers contributing partners in an enterprise. There are two parts to the plan. The first is a formual for rewarding the workers by bonus for any increases in productivity due to their efforts or suggestions. The second part is a system of labor-management committees to sift these suggestions, and put the valuable ones into effect...
...know that for being her French voice I got only $148.50." The dubbers' strike leader, Actor Georges Hubert, scoffed at reports that the strike was a Communist attempt to turn off the flow of U.S. pictures to France. "We have only the old-fashioned capitalist aim of more dough," he said. "We think it not enough that French actors dubbing for top American stars get only $80 to $140 the picture. We want to boost the figure to at least...