Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty years ago Schafer was broke. Then he organized the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians, whose aim was "the joyous work of helping others to help themselves." Two years ago, backed by contributions from faithful followers, he was able to buy the $2,500,000 110-room William K. Vanderbilt mansion at Oakdale, Long Island, which he renamed "Peace Haven" and turned into a retreat for what he called metaphysicians...
...hilarious new sodality lately war-born in, of all places, the Argentine. In Buenos Aires two months ago a group of young Britons and Anglo-Argentines, mostly junior executives in Ernst, Berg & Cia. (advertising agency), formed, half in fun and half in earnest, the Fellowship of the Bellows. Aim: "to raise the wind" for purchasing Hurricane and other fighter planes for the R. A. F. Method: each member contributes one Argentine centavo (4?) for each Axis plane downed during the month. Thus, in October the Fellowship's 3,000 members each paid in 288 centavos or 2.88 pesos...
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...poll is accurate. That is to conduct a poll of your own. We believe that such a poll would confirm our findings. If, however, we were proved wrong, we would welcome the correction. Since our poll was not intended as a "weapon," it could not "boomerang." Our aim was to find the truth. If we have failed in that it remains for others to do a better job. We have facts to back up our conclusion; when you make charges, the burden of proof...
Fundamentally, the group's aim is to advance "better understanding between North and South American students." To accomplish this it is both international and intercollegiate in makeup. Students of Harvard, M. I. T., and Boston University have joined, representing seven nationalities...