Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accordingly, in order to keep the vote from being practically unanimous, for the choice of Joe Forecast in those Open Spaces where his word is law, I will withhold my prediction until Tuesday morning. I aim only to predict, not to influence public opinion. Not that I couldn't influence it, if I chose, and occasionally have...
...first time. She was surprised and pleased to see one "bird" after another disintegrate as fast and often as she pulled trigger. Those present kept it a secret from Mrs. Rockefeller that behind her while she was shooting stood a crack shot who, each time she cried, "Pull," took aim at the sailing pigeons, waited, shot when she did. Not even persons long used to shooting shotguns can detect by ear the shooting of another shotgun almost simultaneously with their...
France is an old-fashioned garden, defended to the Death by Frenchmen, whose chief aim is not progress but to enjoy what they deem attained perfection...
...Johanna Aim, 94, said that she had six children, 26 grandchildren, ten greatgrandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Then she began to dance a waltz which resulted in her receiving great applause and a prize which pleased...
...Chief of the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, wrote a letter to rebuke President Floyd A. Rowe of the Cleveland Boy Scout Council, whose idea the cigaret crusade apparently was. Executive West told Executive Rowe that the provincial council had a "misunderstanding as to the real aims and purposes of the Boy Scout movement." The real aim, he said, is to make better boys, not to preach to others on matters of private conduct...