Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owners. But on the fingers of one hand can be counted the big city newspapers which have been launched, new, in the last 20 years. So it was a rare event when a new journalistic team this week got down to the work of creating such a paper. Their aim: not simply another but a new kind of newspaper, for New York City...
...great majority of people appear to believe*. . . that business confidence would be restored if the Budget were balanced and that the spurt of economic activity that would result would accomplish our common aim of recovery...
...rifle and thrust it into the hands of Tipton Cox, 17, a high-school boy who had scuttled in for shelter. Cox, like all the boys in town, knew and admired Earl. Unlike Earl he had never shot a big rifle, but he lay on the floor, took aim. As Durand spied him and raised a smoking rifle, Cox fired. Earl Durand crumpled with a grunt, hit in the chest. He crawled back into the bank, put his revolver to his own temple, pulled the trigger. Bank President Nelson pumped one more bullet into the shaggy, dead head just...
...clarion tones. The Committee has made a conscious effort to reduce the uncertainty, insecurity, and bewilderment which nag the shorten the period of probation before a permanent appointments. Such also is its formulation of definite and positive criteria for advancement. The young teacher will now know what to aim for, what to stress; and he need no longer cower so abjectly before the dread god Publication. Together these recommendations should effectively dull the Demolition sword suspended over the lower academic ranks...
...work dealing with Einstein's scientific achievements, these are carefully isolated from the whole. This the another has done in order that the unmathematically inclined reader may skip these without destroying the unity of the context. And this move has been well chosen, for despite the author's avowed aim to present a simple explanation of less technical aspects of relativity, the lay reader becomes quickly befuddled in a bewildering maze of abstract mathematical formulae. But if one discounts these two chapters, the work presents a warm and appealing picture of this modest, publicity dodging genius, whose efforts...