Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoidance of publicity is the ultimate aim of the Corporation, it has acted with a considerable lack of canniness at this juncture. If Browder had spoken to Harvard students as a thrice convicted murderer, the University would not have received more publicity than it is attracting at the present time. The Liberals of the nations are on the war-path, and it is hard to see how the Corporation could have ignored this...
...aim of Italy's foreign policy," says Harold Nicolson, British M. P., essayist, novelist, onetime diplomat, "is to acquire by negotiation an importance greater than can be supplied by her own physical strength. It is thus the antithesis of the German system, since instead of basing diplomacy on power she bases power on diplomacy. It is the antithesis of the French system, since instead of striving to secure permanent allies against a permanent enemy, she regards her allies and her enemies as interchangeable. It is the antithesis of the British system, since it is not durable credit that...
...airplane which he pilots over Arctic missionary districts, Rev. Paul Schulte, famed German flying priest, last week soared over Baltimore and Washington, gestured his blessings, sky-wrote the sign of the Cross. Meaning: A "message of peace." His aim: to deliver identical copies of it to each of the 19 Catholic archdioceses...
...royal whimsey. Partly this is due to Author Anderson's original conception, partly to the neurotic bounce with which Cinemactress Davis scratches, claws, snarls and romps her way through the repetitious love scenes, mopes and moons through her my-manic depressions. For all her unerring aim with a goblet, the scene in which Bette Davis smashes mirrors because they reflect her homely makeup falls far short of the similar scene in Fire Over England which Flora Robson terminates with her baffled, weary: "I will have no more mirrors in any room of mine...
...words based on his name. Such are the Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp ("Phillips" riveted to "good turn"), Philmont (his 300,000-acre New Mexico ranch), Philtower and Philcade (his skyscrapers at Tulsa). Oiligarch Phillips last week did a good turn at Tulsa, where the Philbrook Art Center was opened. Its aim: to make culture gush in an oil town once called (by Harper's Magazine) a "cultural Sahara...