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Word: aiming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aim to find an easier, more certain, and less expensive way to sound the atmosphere has been accomplished, and much sooner than we expected, when in 1935 we designed and used the first American radio-meteorograph," Dr. Brooks said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: METEOROGRAPHS ARE SUCCESS | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

Because he believes Conservation is CCC's first & foremost aim, Director Fechner also believes that for his corps the spade is mightier than the sword and a better weapon. Should U. S. youth be militarized to build up Army reserves, he would have Congress: i) forget the work program and go in exclusively for military training, 2) would draw trainees from all classes of the population. If this would make a final mockery of William James's peaceful idea, it would at least fulfill the James idea of making use of gilded youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Poor Young Men | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...armed with good teaching, survey courses, and the principle of concentration Harvard has a fair chance of reconciling its twofold educational aim: the training of both the scholar and the man of action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEGY ON EDUCATION | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...Federal Government's increasing sense of its public health obligations, the President told Congress: "[We do] not propose a great expansion of Federal health services, [but recommend] that plans be worked out and administered by States and localities with the assistance of Federal grants-in-aid. The aim is a flexible program ... a sound investment which can be expected to wipe out, in the long run, certain costs now borne in the form of relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: History in a Tea Wagon | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Speaking about the European situation as a whole, Hicks declared, "The aim of all recent British policy is to build Germany to the point where it can fight the Soviet Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HICKS SEES CAPITALISM GONE | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

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