Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the President sent his tax message to Congress. It was by no means all the devil's work. In asking Congress for $1 billion in additional taxes, Harry Truman did aim a pitchfork jab in the general direction of big estates and corporate profits. To another section of business he was kind: he called for reduction of the whopping wartime excise taxes on such items as plane, train and bus travel, freight shipments, long-distance telephone calls, cosmetics and handbags...
...primary aim of the five-year plan is to make Yugoslavia economically self-sufficient by a policy of industrialization pursued at breakneck pace. Tito last summer claimed that 50% of the goal had been accomplished. Last week the five-year plan's mastermind Boris Kidric, chairman of the Planning Commission, raised the claim of fulfillment...
...student, through intensive study of certain phases of a subject, "that same sort of appreciation and understanding that comes to those who studied some branch of knowledge with profit for many years." This, he said, rather than providing a survey of a wide field of knowledge, is the true aim of General Education...
...seldom achieved--or even attempted--these days; it combines imagination, intelligence, and social commentary with the best possible results. Not since Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" has a play been offered that was capable of stimulating in its audience that honest exhilaration which is the aim of true comedy...
...balance last year's heavy movie diet of psychotics, disillusioned soldiers, mistreated Negroes and megalomaniac athletes, Hollywood is currently dishing up a series of bland drawing-room comedies. Mostly these harmless romps seem to have no more serious aim than to give tired moviegoers a chance to watch elegantly dressed people wasting time and money...