Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...break the Wolverine's national supremacy. The Elis have the Strongest team in their long history and have never captured this title, but a great showing is expected from them at the end of the week. Coach Bob Kiphuth and his squad, led by Captain Howard Johnson, will aim at the leadership heartened by their victory over the Michigan team early in the season...
...yard free style event, and a performer who could well equal or better the amazing performance of Jack Medica of Washington who stole the show the last time the Indoor Athletic Pool was the scene of the swim events. The Yale 400 yard medley relay quartet will also aim to break its own world's record of 3:26:6, set against Brown this season...
Three days later, echoes of these Crippsisms bounced back from the fusty chambers of the London Times, which said: "Both for Great Britain and for the U.S. . . . secure relations with Russia are of paramount importance. ... It should be a primary aim of British policy ... to promote that understanding and to associate the U.S. Government with an Anglo-Soviet agreement. . . . Russia is not exclusively a European power, and the same identity of interests which makes Russia and the U.S. allies in the struggle against Hitler unites them not less firmly across the Pacific Ocean. There is no reason to suppose that...
...intention of starting The Rhymer in such fast company. But when Samuel Riddle's War Relic was scratched the day before the race, leaving Jockey Eddie Arcaro without a mount, Gaver decided to take a chance. "It goes to show," said he, "that if you don't aim at the moon once in a while, you'll never...
Destruction is one aim. A guerrilla learns how to derail and wreck trains, blow up tanks, destroy planes on the ground, dynamite bridges. He steals at night into the middle of an enemy motor lorry park, removes sparkplugs, drops an iron bolt into the engine, puts the plug back and steals away with the satisfaction of knowing that the engine will be ruined when someone tries to start it in the morning. Or he drops sugar lumps or pours linseed oil into a gas tank, which will immobilize a car by the time it has run four miles...