Word: aimed
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...Womb of Time." Judge Learned Hand often seemed almost to scoff at the law he served. "The aim of the law.'' he once said, "is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man." He was a legal secularist, denying the existence of a natural law and cautioning younger judges not to "embrace the exhilarating opportunity of anticipating a doctrine which may be in the womb of time, but whose birth is distant." He was also a charitable judge who could write, in reversing a lower court's refusal to grant citizenship to a woman because...
TIME," a reader wrote last week, "is a very positive magazine." Being positive is a responsibility that TIME assumes as part of its aim to tell the reader what is so and to alert him to what is not so. Toward this end, TIME'S researchers, correspondents and editors dig as deep and roam as wide as they can to establish the facts-large and small-for every story. But as each issue is going to press, the editors always find that in the interest of accuracy and completeness and curiosity they want more details-very often small...
...aim is "a new and unparalleled professional school" for Government policymakers. Founded in 1930, the Wood-row Wilson School follows its namesake's dictum that "the school must be of the nation." Offering the first U.S. interdepartmental program (economics, history, politics, sociology), the school has boasted a unique flair for practicality. Students range from sharp new college graduates to seasoned foreign businessmen and rising Army colonels. To earn Wilson's degree of Master of Public Affairs, they spend hours in seminars, work summers in Government agencies. The goal is a graduate trained to use academic tools on ticklish...
...their new homes when compared with their old quarters, but the ministry's report nevertheless concludes that the spacious garden city is not the answer for relocating refugees from the urban slums. "The new towns of the future," says the report, "may well find it important to aim at a more truly urban design," congested, commercial and happenstance. Apparently, the modern city dweller, in spite of all he puts up with, cannot live without...
Fred Maytag's aim is to make a machine that will require no major repairs for ten years. "I'm well aware," says he, "that we have not achieved this objective, but we are making strides...