Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dynamic and abnormal psychology is a field without precedent or tradition, it may be of interest to know the plan or organization by which it will function and carry out the intended purposes. The primary aim will be scientific research. Most of the results are gleaned from a study of abnormal cases, since these are merely exaggerations of the normal. Another way that research can be carried on is by experimentation with people who are hypnotized, thus getting at their sub-conscious reactions and impressions...
Agreeing with the professor's report that the primary aim of all colleges should be the training of the mind, Dean Gauss, nevertheless held that, "Football is one of the healthiest academic avocations, and I have known many stars who were Phi Beta Kappa...
Moved to deep smoldering wrath, she did not chastise the animal at the time, waited until her husband returned from a sea voyage last week, charged him to shoot the squirrel while she waited on the porch. Impetuous, Herr Bugg-Moe fired upon the squirrel without pondering his aim. The bullet missed, plowed through a window of the house, pierced one of Fru Bugg-Moe's wrists as she held her fingers to her ears...
...Those who wondered what the publishers (who also issue a theatrical snicker sheet called Zit's Weekly) intended to do with the paper, and whether they had not been slightly temerarious in their choice of a title, were informed by an editorial that "the Leader's aim is to print all news fearlessly, fairly and without malice." Underneath was a squib censoring Edward W. Browning, "Cinderella man," for "taking little girls in their teens to night clubs." Another editorial asked the public to have more consideration for the underpaid taxi-drivers of New York. The headline across...
...this is not wholly to praise it. It is as if he had given us examples in "All the Sad Young Men" of the many types of short stories he has written since his last publication. "Step up," Fitzgerald seems to cry. "Something for everybody. We aim to please. Flappers and philosophers, you'll find something here you'll like if only you'll look far enough...