Word: aimed
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After graduating from high school, where he specialized in debate and dramatics, John Murray abandoned his earlier aim to become a doctor and joined the Society of Jesus at 16. After taking his A.B. at Weston, Mass, and M.A. at Boston College, he taught for the order in the Philippines for three years, then he went to the Jesuit college at Woodstock, Md. for four years of theology. In his third year there, he was ordained, aged 28. He put in two years of theological graduate study at Gregorian University in Rome and various other centers of Catholic learning...
Originally, the aim of the surrealists-aside from the aim to shock and to make publicity-was to open up the realm of hallucination, of legend, dreams, and even madness. "The marvelous is always beautiful; any facet of the marvelous is beautiful; indeed, only the marvelous is beautiful," wrote Breton. In one way, time has been kind to the movement, for the best of its members were good artists. But in a world so inured to artistic high jinks, much of the marvelous is gone...
...aim of the Ashby Commission's proposal would be a self-sufficient Nigerian secondary school system by 1970. Nigeria would send its natives abroad to be trained for high school teaching at the rate of 600 a year for seven years. By 1966, American-and British-educated Nigerians would be returning to their country in fairly large numbers, and the need for imported instructors would steadily decrease...
Growing toward maturity rather than amassing information is the aim of Sarah Lawrence, Ward said. He explained how a pholosophy of education related to interests and abilities had shaped the college's program of self-government of individual instruction...
...hostile, jeering crowd filled up even the standing room in 2 Divinity Ave. to see an NROTC-sponsored showing of a movie prepared by the Un-American Activities Committee. The film, "Operation Abolition," "communist-inspired" students demonstrating last May against the Com San Francisco bearings. Its aim is to counteract the recent movement some liberal groups to abolish the Committee...