Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Both sides," it read, "unanimously expressed the conviction that the aim must be to assure calm, order and peace in this part of Central Europe. The Czechoslovak State President . . . trustfully laid the fate of the Czech people and country into the hands of the Führer of the German Reich...
Although the Houses aim at a cross-section as a desirable goal, they nevertheless differ considerably in composition. For example, Eliot House at present has a larger proportion of men from the "exclusive" private schools than the other Houses, and Lowell has a larger percentage in the upper reaches of the rank list than has the college as a whole. These are indications of certain differences in entrance criteria, although the Housemasters have declined to state these discrepancies, since such a revelation might smack of competitive advertising...
...total of 150 panes of glass have passed the great divide since the recent snowfall, collapsing before the unerring aim of student snow-heavers. Gore Hall has been the hardest-hit. Its windows have been perforated 20 times, and its gaping panes have stirred the maintenance department into frenzied attempts to apprehend the vandals responsible for the carnage...
Adventure and romance, not flight from suicide, says Author Anderson, was the aim of the swarthy, 21-year-old ex-clerk-farmer-teacher who signed on the Acushnet ("Pequod") at New Bedford one winter day in 1840. Other travelers' accounts (which he shrewdly disparaged) furnished the main basis for the "unvarnished truth" of his South Seas experiences-captivity by Typee tribesmen, cannibalism, "care-killing damsels," Queen Moana's erotic tattooing, the many other wonders which took mid-Victorian readers' breath away...
...attempt to find new directions in radio drama and to reach a higher level of intelligence in productions than now offered will be the aim of the Literary Committee of the Radio Workshop. They will deal particularly with the theory and practice of poetic drama...