Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voters of this Nation Have rizen to their might. And dealt a blow to liquor That cheers the friends of right. The aim of whiskey lovers To give us Booze again, Has failed to meet approval In minds of righteous...
Unavoidably the Indians, who do most of Bolivia's fetching and carrying, are sunk in degraded peonage. The small ruling class of Spanish descent has but one callous, inevitable aim-to keep the Indians down. Last year some 50,000 peons, many half starved, attempted a desperate revolt. They were quelled by the bayonet. Official Bolivian despatches described the uprising as "Communistic...
...Joseph Heights, Ky., in order to get rabbits for a stew, Bernard Meiners went hunting with his .gun. Soon he saw Oily, a horse belonging to the Sisters of Notre Dame, moving about in the grass. Supposing Oily to be a rabbit, Bernard Meiners took aim, fired, killed...
...smiled wryly--I have never known aim to smile any other way--and tapped a fresh cigarette on his thumbnail. He drew deeply, held his breath, and looked 3' the carpet through narrowed eyes...
...than that. A man who remembers a face, or who considers an introduction of the evening before ample reason for a nod, is no better, in my estimation, than one who thinks membership in the same club with one of these relaxed persons a justification of continued bowing to aim. And there still exist--can you believe it?--those who think playing on the same athletic squad full license for a greeting outside of season...