Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doodlebug. That was the nadir of his career. With nowhere to look but up, McDonnell took aim on a $100,000 prize: the 1929 Guggenheim Safe Air-Craft Award, for which he and two associates built a plane they called "the Doodlebug." It was an open-cockpit monoplane that McDonnell hoped to peddle as "the aerial flivver of the future." It came close to consigning him to the past...
...that coalition of trade unions, religious groups, and students can be the spur to the faltering steps of the war on poverty. Putting the Freedom Budget into effect--the plan to spend $185 billion over the next ten years in a massive on- slaught against poverty -- should be the aim of the coalition, Rustin said...
...students' basic aim is to establish a "planning community" in the department instead of the present rigid hierarchy separating faculty and students, several of the organizers explained the week. "We're not undergraduates, and we have our own areas of competence," one commented. In such a "community" atmosphere, students would take part in discussion on curriculum and policy...
...Some nation soon is going to teach the world that free men can accept an aim for humanity bigger than that of any Marxist or any Fascist. They are going to show that free men have the discipline, tradition and faith to pursue that aim with passion and unanimity until it is achieved. One nation guided by God will show the world how to live... And the children of the earth and their children's children will rise up and call that nation blessed...
...social aspects of mental health will soon be extended to the entire medical school, which has a faculty of 1,072 (511 full-time). Yale, the nation's sixth oldest medical school, generally rated among the top six in excellence, is revamping its curriculum with the aim of producing physicians who will combine excellence in scientific training with the ability to see their patients not as "cases" but as human beings in a social setting. That is what Yale's new dean has always wanted...