Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hope springs eternal! With the Washington "economaniacs" on the loose, one's hopes begin to pulsate on reading of Barry Goldwater's young and sane followers, Young Americans for Freedom, not to mention the No. i aim of the John Birch Society, i.e., the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...second aim has received expression in the traditional humanistic effort to develop all the potentialities present in man. Every university, Tillich maintined, accepts this Renaissance ideal of education. Emphasis on induction into society is reduced and stress is placed rather on free questioning...
...experimental animal feels well.'' Said a Russian radio announcer: "The chief aim was to further perfect spaceships and to establish on them a system that will provide necessary conditions for man's flight.'' All well and good-but on the basis of announced results, hardly more impressive than the Soviets' own feat of last Aug. 20, when they landed two dogs from orbit in a spaceship weighing almost as much as the current...
...industry. He offers them special courses in everything from chemistry to photography, often switches production workers to research or engineering projects to forestall boredom and encourage new interests. He encourages his scientists to pursue pure-research projects on their own at least part of the time. Land's aim is "the ideal company" in which "the working life is so deeply satisfying, so richly rewarding that leisure becomes relaxation rather than escape." Land himself spends much of his time in his laboratory in the company's Cambridge, Mass., headquarters. He devotes about half his time to research...
...first practical material to polarize light (a transparent plastic sheet), left school for three years to perfect it. When he returned. Harvard gave him a laboratory to work in, but restless Din Land passed up a degree, left school to make his polarizers and carry on research. His chief aim was to sell Detroit on a system of polarized auto windshields and headlight lenses that would take the glare out of night driving. The industry never accepted the idea, but Land has not yet abandoned hope...