Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-loading infantry rifle perfected by General Thompson was last week awarded the British War Office prize of $15,000 and will now be tried generally throughout the British Army. A rifle for each soldier to carry, to fire aimed shots from the shoulder without pausing to reload, the Thompson self-loader differs from a machine gun in that the trigger is pulled for each shot instead of held down for a continuous stream of lead. Rid of the necessity for bolting a new cartridge into the firing chamber between shots, as in hand-loading rifles, a soldier can aim...
...Musical Club was founded in 1898 with John Knowles Paine as its first president. The annual concert is given to further the aim expressed in its constitution of fostering musical talent in the University...
When Dr. Griggs turns his guns for a broadside at the colleges themselves, his aim is rather uncertain. "Money is given too easily and too freely to the colleges," he asserts, "to be of value. Because of these gifts from outside, the colleges have changed." The validity of this assumption may be questioned by those who devote weary hours to canvassing for endowment funds, or to careful budgeting so that even poor professorial salaries may be paid. And, even if Doctor Griggs were right, he fails to capitalize his statement, beyond the exceedingly vague deduction that "the colleges have changed...
...essentially human standard by means of his imagination, and then create in accordance with it. Standards are old-fashioned "The Golden Rule is that there is no Golden Rule," says Bernard Shaw, and the mass of Europe and America applauds, and poetizes and paints and composes, not with the aim of laying hold upon the essentially human elements, but rather with the purpose of exhibiting each one his own little individualities; in a word, expressing himself rather than the humanity in himself. And the result is a million divergences with no central standard, and ensuing cultural chaos...
Modern education has devised expedients which give free rein in a large latitude to the individual fancy. The sense of community of interest among many working in several fields for a common aim favors breadth and vision...