Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British said it was? German Communists ridiculed the idea. Sneered Soviet-licensed Berlin am Mittag: "Auntie fainted and the dachshund howled with terror as news of the plot came over the radio. . . ." But other Germans asked themselves: Didn't Protocol M check with Moscow's avowed aim to wreck ERP? Wasn't the Ruhr a logical Communist objective? If the protocol was not the gospel from Belgrade, what was the gospel...
...tried, although it failed, to reach its absolute climax. In the cities of the world, people raised their awed faces to the skies while air power thundered over Manila, Singapore, Sevastopol, Cologne, Schweinfurt, Regensburg, Hamburg and Berlin. Over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, air power very nearly did reach its final aim of total annihilation; in those two cities, 125,000 Japanese perished in two clock ticks...
...organization, formed this week, bears the nonstop name: Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State. P.O.A.U.F.S.C.S.'s aim: "To assure the maintenance of the American principle of separation of church and state." President of the new group is Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, Baptist president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. V.P.s are the Christian Century's Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York, and Dr. John A. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary...
...editors' aim was to sweep the modern world "with the same searching gaze which the Spectator turned on manners of 1 8th Century England." Pacific Spectator had a lot of territory to cover, and no Addison & Steele to help cover it. Since the days of Bret Harte's Overland Monthly, the Western U.S. has had no highbrow magazine of any weight. To help fill the vacuum, 23 colleges had joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year...
...knows that counts, not just the marks he can get"--a rather starting bit of philosophy to hear from a professional tutor. When I read him a list of six topics which Professor Ropp had given out as probable exam questions, Cramer said, "We don't want to aim for any particular topics. This man Ropp fooled some of the boys on the last exam, so we don't want to take any chances this time...