Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desire to rebuild Russia's own factories with Manchurian equipment, and to weaken China on her Asiatic flank. Mukden has been reduced from a great industrial city into a tragic, crowded way station on the Russian-controlled railroad to Dairen. A strong China is not Russia's aim...
Coach Hal Ulen's Jayvee swimming team will aim for its eighth win in nine starts when it meets a visiting squad from St. George's School tomorrow afternoon at the Indoor Athletic Building. This is relatively a preliminary to the Yale meet on March 16, when the Jayvees, who have not yet built up to their pre-war strength, will be swimming against well-seasoned...
...aim to equip men for their place in a world of scientific as well as political complexities, President Conant seeks to admit men, to advanced study especially but to the rest of the University as well, by assessing "the quality of mind, not the quantity of learning...
...American industry, fattened with war profits . . . has deliberately set out to destroy labor unions, to provoke strikes and economic chaos, and hijack the American people through uncontrolled profits and inflations. ... Its clear aim is to exact unconditional surrender of the American people and the United States Government. . . . The steel industry now has the full and sole responsibility for the strike which must take place. . . ." . Had Big Steel really been merely stubborn in refusing to compromise for the President's proposal and thus avert a strike? One industrialist thought so. Big, bustling Henry Kaiser rushed to the White House with...
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Heinrich Himmler's chief of all counter-partisan activities in the Soviet Union, testified that Germany's official aim had been to exterminate 30 million Slavs. The High Command, he said, had been well aware of this. Shouted Goring, once again losing his serene composure: "Dirty dog! Damned traitor...