Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the drives "aim at the same area of interest," she said, but the Radcliffe and Harvard committees "represent those interests in different charities...
...Harvey will tell you, things have changed. The staff have put their heads together and devised a pair of angled mirrors at which the projectors aim. The mirrors turn the image rightside right and the obscuring prism has been plucked out. Not only is the screen now sharp and bright, even at the corners, but the Brattle can employ Cinemascope or nearly any other big screen system. All the better to see good movies...
...quite evident that all those developments have been simply copied from extreme-left Paris papers which have taken me as their favorite aim because my political action up to May last proved a stumbling block to their policy of surrender in North Africa. I feel it is a pity that an American magazine should think it fit to feed its readers that sort of unwholesome stuff. What, may I ask, would America and indeed the whole free world gain if Algeria fell into the hands of anti-Western fanatics...
From the beginning, President Mohammed Ayub Khan has emphasized that his aim is to improve efficiency in administration. The emphasis is twofold: (1) tackling the major problems; and (2) on service to the people. Persistent interference by locally influential, corrupt politicians which obstructed the execution of well-formulated policies has died. It is hardly relevant to criticize the new cabinet of talented and practical men on grounds of "political inexperience." Inside Pakistan, stagnation has given way to a new vitality and resignation has changed to constructive puposefulness...
...primitive Catalan signs and symbols. Once Miró destroyed one whole wall when it failed to please him, and began again. "Guessing the color of ceramic is like cooking a biscuit-you never know how it will come out," explained one expert ruefully. Miró's principal aim: "To make the murals harmonize with the architecture...