Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will contain an approximate cross section of the college. That is each House will have its fair share of the athletic and the academic, of the literary, the scientific, and the historical. Diversity rather than unity of interest among the occupants of a House will thus be the guiding aim...
...force. . . . My sympathies and my appreciation will always be ... opposed to the American cinema magnates on the ground that they are more or less concentrated on the bastardization of the cinema not only with wearisome nonsense in regard to sex and romance but now with the talking pictures, the aim of which latter apparently is to exhume old stage plays which can be reproduced poorly and cheaply, yet be made to pay well...
Terseness his very end and aim...
Creating such realistic scenes is the new aim of natural history museums. The American Museum has several groups of wild animals in natural surroundings. Last week it received seven lion skins, brought back from Tanganyika district of East Africa by its Carlisle-Clark African expedition. The lions will be posed at the edge of a thicket near one of the great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles...
Commander Byrd's aim is to explore the South Polar continent. It contains 5,000,000 square miles; is covered, except for its margins during its summer, with thick ice. There may be a water channel all the way across it, joining the Ross and Weddell Seas. There are mountain ranges. They may be extensions of the Andes; they may be related to the formations of the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Those Antarctica mountains and the tremendous ice cap help make the South Pole regions the heaviest part of the Earth. In comparison, the North Pole...