Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sargent, who as a biologist spent considerable time working with monkeys, claims his chief aim is returning the University to the "healthy simian curiosity" which he claims was prevelant during his own College days. He feels the only path open to Harvard is to throw out the officials who have been "prostituted by outside pressures," and to ensure the undergraduate a "true view of the future...
...Newhouse, 36, has jumped the party line, but he seems to have lost his novelist's direction in the process. Neil Miller, his hero and narrator, is a cynical ex-hobo (Newhouse rode the rods in his day, too) who works in a New York publishing house; his aim is to save $1,000 and escape from it all on a tramp steamer. Larry, the publisher, is a serious, decent, do-gooding young millionaire who wants to put out good books but is completely dominated by his Communist staff...
...aim of the plan in to insure "that well-qualified students without sufficient financial resources will be able to continue their education in the field of business administration...
...salesmen. They will put out 10 to 15 semiweekly "sub-editions," in effect, community giveaways, for the major communities of Los Angeles. All the papers will have some features (fashions, movies, music, cartoons, etc.) in common. Los Angeles newsmen guessed that 36-year-old Parton's eventual aim, if the Independent succeeded, would be a citywide daily...
Merely Bored. In Pralognan, France, police jailed Léopold Dupont, who had taken careful aim with his carbine, scored a bull's-eye on a passing pedestrian's wooden...