Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimate aim of all their strivings is to take home the Goldthwaite Cup emblem of Big Three 150-pound crew championship. They will row for it at Derby, Conn. The course will be the regulation Henley distance, a mile and five sixteenths, precisely the length of the longest straight stretch on the English Thames where the original Henley is held...
...union offices, Senator Pepper huffed, "I'm not afraid of anybody," and affirmed his "confidence in the ability of the American people to distinguish between foul and fair." He applauded our "traditional willingness to wrestle with ideas." In the Democratic Party (Pepper firmly opposes any Third-Party moves), his aim will remain converting it to a "truly liberal position which will really justify the two-party system...
Added to the necessity of an early start is the desirability for honors. Because of the present hair-splitting standards of the graduate schools, any chemistry major who plans on advanced work must aim at least for a cum laude, and to qualify for his Latin suffix must straddle himself with two extra half-courses. But this additional load is not supplemented with any tutorial assistance and the student must assimilate this extra helping by himself, without the benefit of well-versed personal guidance. Despite the claim that lab sections are the nearest thing possible to group tutorial...
Watt and his lieutenants are all new to Advocate traditions. They know that out of the unsavory financial and editorial confusion that heralded the Advocate's wartime retirement from the field of undergraduate publications had come a magazine of poems and aesthetics. Their aim, according to Watt, is "to be a Harpers on the College level...
...UNESCO's Aim...