Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of praises must come a word for John Holabird, whose transformation of the evils of Sanders Theater into good should set a target for succeeding generations to aim at from a distance. The use of the memorial Hall transept for the Reims coronation scene was a master stroke of a designer's imagination: with the audience seated in the long hall it became a cathedral even to the acoustics. And that was not the limit of Holabird's invention. His division of the stage into three separate units for the opening scenes would alone have made the staging...
...first, the Brazilian press swallowed the D.P.s' line and echoed their complaints in big headlines. Later, the press took second thought. Said 0 Globo: "These countrymen aim . . . to set Brazilian opinion against our allies. . . . Their preoccupation [is] with preserving National Socialism...
...Bureau aim was to help students get along under their own power and not provide the academic crutch that had characterized the tutoring establishments. This philosophy was the basis to the recent change from Bureau of Supervisors to Bureau of Study Counsel. Actual help in specific courses was to be reserved for men whose faulty method of work or poor back ground had retarded them or for students who had missed classes because of illness...
...went on, the only recourse was the printing press. But the course of inflation could have been stopped after the Japanese war-"if there had been internal peace. . . . Instead of peace and reconstruction, the country was plunged into war and destruction by the Communists . . . [whose] deliberate and conscious . . . aim was to destroy the economic system so that the Government would collapse...
...aim of the paper is to stimulate some of its more reticent members into active participation in the Chapter's functions by publishing details of meetings and plans for drives, say the editors. They have also planned to distribute the Newsletter among prospective AVC members to encourage their joining the veterans' organization...