Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other two suggestions aim at improving the present method of electing regional officers, which is now by caucus at the national convention in the summer. Two problems arise: voters seldom know candidates' qualifications, and officers elected in the summer must be confirmed by a vote of the regional conference in the Fall. This time-lag leads to inertia on the part of new officers until their "second election." A nominating committee that would acquaint itself with qualifications of potential candidates before the convention, and an amendment to the constitution making the summer election final would insure the best possible officers...
...taking attendance) also seems to be inconsistent," Faculty spokesmen said, "with our aim of making a student more responsible for his own education and of treating him as a member of a university rather than a school...
...when she said: "Ça, va mal chez moi, comme partout" ("Things are tough at home, and tough all over"). Said Jacques Rumpert, a petit bourgeois like millions of others, who runs a typewriter repair shop at Montparnasse: "Que voulez-vous? I worked hard all my life. My aim was to have a house, with a small garden by the Seine, so I could fish. All that is out now, ... I am not a Gaullist. I'm not a member of the 'Third Force,' and I am not a Communist either. I belong to the biggest party...
...Arab is indiscriminately anti-Semitic, Hunter added. He believes the Jews to be of a "diabolical design" and means to stop them before they get any further. Commenting on the UN plan to partition Palestine with economic union, Hunter pointed out that its two-fold aim makes the plan "ingenious...
Implementation of the United Nations decision to partition Palestine will be the aim of a University-wide rally sponsored jointly by four Harvard and Radcliffe organizations at New Lecture Hall tonight at 8:15 o'clock...