Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Samuel Smith Drury as a man whose broadsides usually struck home. His bustling, benign successor, the Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, has neither style nor sonority, but he too hits his target. Last week, speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration at Connecticut's Choate School, Dr. Nash took aim at a target he and his listeners knew well: the "independent" school (e.g. Choate, St. Paul's). Excerpts...
Learning-by-hearing is the serious side of a new fad for children's recordings, most of which aim only to entertain (see Music). Sales indicate that a lot of desperate parents need help...
With the common aim expressed by Council head Levin H. Campbell, 3rd, '48, in mind--"to provide the College with a democratic and representative Student Council"--the two groups at last achieved a meeting of minds. Raymond J. Considine '48, head of the investigating revisionists, and Edric A. Weld '46, chairman of the new Council constitution committee, shared the chair for the evening...
...papers which, like his father's Manhattan partisan PM, are adless or "subsidized by one person." His own aim as a Sun man is modest enough. Says he: "Maybe some day I'll be able to do some good here...
Like many novels that aim at the nerve ends of a whole nation, The Dark Wood is undeniably sincere in intention, but in the telling is pat and unconvincing. Author Weston has strong and respectful feelings for the abandoned soldier and the miserable widow-but her slick answer to their despair is to have them meet accidentally and fall in love, because the lonely soldier reminds the lonely widow of her dead lusband. Though The Dark Wood has its cold-blooded villain and villainess, most of the characters are treated as normal, unheroic people of the 20th Century -with...