Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find your reporting of events often exasperating as well as surprising in a paper which professes to aim at brevity. You reach the meat of an item by the most circuitous route. The reporter seems to have taken a course in the Circumlocution Office...
...woman edged through the crowd unnoticed, holding a small revolver between her cupped hands which she extended toward Il Duce, as though in adoring supplication. Taking careful, point-blank aim she pulled the trigger; but at that same instant a band struck up the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," and Signor Mussolini threw back his head proudly to listen. The bullet sped, but not into his brain. He had thrown back his head far enough so that the leaden slug only clipped an atom of flesh from the tip of his nose...
...other Cities?Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Philadelphia and the Niagara frontier?were held up as examples of city-planning "which aim consciously or unconsciously at increasing metropolitan congestion" and exploitation...
...NATURE OF MAN?George A. Dorsey?Harper ($1). In a short preface to this small book, Author Dorsey, of Why We Behave Like Human Beings, says: "This book . . . aims especially to introduce you to the important known facts of human nature and to such biologic hypotheses as can be made to work." Concerned only with the facts of the case, Author Dorsey politely performs introductions to Visceral, Genetic, Somatic, Social, Cultural Behaviour in successive chapters. The book does not argue, it states. Its aim, the aim of the "Things-to-Know Series" to which it belongs,! is to inform...
...promote independence and a spirit of inquiry. If the tutor is the right kind of man, he also occupies somewhat the role of an older brother, when such a role is in place, helps the student solve the problems of college life and even, sometimes, of love affairs. The aim is to make the relation of tutor and tutored informal, human, and genial. While the former normally has an office in which he may meet his students if, he pleases, many tutors receive them at their rooms, or houses, and offer them such stimulus to geniality as tea and cigarettes...