Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...area. There will almost certainly be a rush, as there was in the 'twenties and 'thirties, into the notorious snaps in any of the given areas. Passing one of these unscientific sciences or "cultural" language courses will not contribute an iota toward the liberal education that is the ultimate aim of distribution. The only way to avoid these difficulties is to provide the broad area surveys which the Faculty has approved in theory but shelved indefinitely. No difficulties, either the piddling ones of content or the more potent one of finances, should be allowed to defer the setting...
...took alarm. Said 14 Harvard facultymen: "In the books will appear many statements to which any reader with special interests will inevitably take exception. We hold that this ought to be the case. . . . Our schools need challenge and . . . the vigor of intellectual controversy." Replied the N. A. M.: "The aim was . . . merely to determine the facts. . . . The public will have a factual basis upon which to judge what, if anything, should be done...
Scientific Experiment. In Long Beach, Calif., a 33-year-old chiropractor named Wilfred C. Blair locked himself in a closet with a 25-lb. cake of dry ice. Aim: a "scientific experiment" with carbon dioxide. As the ice melted, it gave off C02 fumes. In 20 minutes, the chiropractor was dead. Next to his body police found a notebook containing his pulse, temperature and respiration record...
...First Citizen: "My God, they're coming out of the -woodwork.") The talk rose in speculation about Willkie's future ("The Administration will ignore him, and so will the Republicans in Congress"-The New Republic), and about his relationship with the President who had defeated him ("The aim of the Roosevelt-Willkie-Bullitt combination ... is for a joint British-American war against the Soviet Union"-Daily Worker). But in a Washington that is far more conscious of politics than it is of the war, most of the talk of citizen to citizen raged on the question of Willkie...
...does seem a plausible argument that teachers should participate in the sacrifices which are everywhere being made for defense. But such a way out would reverse a trend which for two generations this University has striven to encourage: to provide security and reward for brilliant minds. The aim has been to induce great or potentially great educators to come to Harvard and gladly teach, instead of turning to professions which though more lucrative are of less benefit to society. The University a decision to maintain salaries at their present level deserves the highest praise, as evidence of a feeling...