Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking under the banner of the Student Defense League, whose aim is the defeat of Hitlerism, Merriman reminded the audience that the past year has seen a mass movement to jump on the bandwagon, and that at least one half of the teaching staff at the University is helping the cause. "Harvard is now 99 per cent in favor of helping to check the Germans," he stated...
...first anniversary of the Tripartite Pact of Germany, Italy and Japan meant to the world that the pact had failed in its principal aim. That aim was to paralyze U.S. policy by simultaneous threats in both the Atlantic and the Pacific...
...Adolf Hitler outmoded the U.S. plan. With tanks needed to block Hitler in the East as well as in the West, many an ordnance expert now says that the U.S. will have to aim at production of 30,000-35,000 tanks a year...
Although many Navy men still doubt its value, the airship can do some things an airplane can't. It can run at low speed, or stop dead, hover over a suspected subsea object, take dead aim with bomb or depth charge from a stationary platform. From its car, in clear weather, the eight-man crew of a modern blimp once spotted a submarine 90 feet below the surface. Crews from Lakehurst daily practice following sharks and whales, occasionally give them a practice bomb. Other blimp virtues: they can stay in the air about 50 hours, can follow...
Then it happened. During an exchange of wild rights, Joe took aim with his Sunday punch. Said Lou later, "I forgot to duck." He staggered up at the count of nine, was belted mercilessly along the ropes for a few seconds until Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the fight, one second before the bell...