Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching, found it "not as good as it should be. In fact, some of it is poor." Since then, Pitt's faculty has been strengthened, and its salaries have been raised. Last week Chancellor Litchfield announced a gift that should do much to realize the university's aim of excellence: $12 million, the great bulk of it to be spent for teaching and graduate study, presented by the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. Breakdown of the huge grant...
Solvency was my only aim...
...History and Literature that the tutors of the Thirties taught and at which some current tutors aim went beyond Barrett Wendell's original aims. It was a synthesis of the disciplines rather than a combination; it sought an understanding of an entire period or country through the study of history and literature. "An insight into a country or period as a cultural entity" is still a prime goal of History and Lit, William R. Taylor, current chairman of the board of tutors says...
...hophead whom Dr. Zhivago loathes, as much for his boring platitudes as for his cruelty. By contrast, when a band of teen-age White soldiers storms the Red positions, the doctor admires their gallantry. He feels that he must shoot in self-defense, but he cannot bring himself to aim at the boys who "were probably akin to him in spirit, in education, in moral values." And so, in a perfect illustration of Zhivago's essential refusal to do harm, he aims his fire at a dead tree...
...want my girls to know everything," says Mrs. O'Mahony. "My aim is utter perfection." At least in principle, Cygnets learn to discuss abstract art, ask a bishop how he takes his tea, change a diaper, sew up a ball gown, open a bazaar, cook a banquet and, should such perfection overpower onlookers, give first aid. It is assumed that Cygnets will marry, and one lecture tells the girls "How to care for a tired husband fretful after a nasty day at the office...