Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student who had enjoyed the college education turned out to be a genius, with a scheme for a new form of paint drier. If he could finance his invention, all concerned could become rich:-- wherefore the idea for a new kind of business, the American Promoting Company, whose aim it was to finance indigent men of genius...
...will be headed by the Personnel Research Federation, established under the auspices of the engineering foundation, of which Alfred D. Flinn is the director. According to Mr. Flinn the movement marks a turning point in the history of the personnel management in this country. He said the federation would aim "to further the application of scientific research to problems affecting the happiness, welfare, and efficiency of the great body of workers, and to promote research activities pertaining to personnel in industry, commerce, education, and government...
...other three Pennsylvanians, one Nathan T. Folwell (dress goods), Samuel M. Vauclain (Baldwin locomotives), Edward T. Stotesbury (banks) ; but Mr. Vauclain became involved in an explanation of a $10,000 contribution which his company had made to an organization (The American Economic Institute) whose frankly admitted aim was " to protect the railroads against improper legislation...
...becomes the inner struggle that he shoots her in the second act. By the end of the evening, they have agreed that they love each other. From every normal point of view, it seems entirely probable that he will shoot her again in a week or two. As his aim grows progressively better with prac tice, he will no doubt succeed in killing her off before the year is out. Katherine Cornell gave to the part of the shallow, feline wife an acrid brilliance that justified in part the so-called entertainment. A most doggedly unpleasant wife, yet somehow crookedly...
Instead of so airy and fragile an educative purpose, about as comprehensible as pure theology, it is plain that the aim of education is not to implant in young intellects any given set of dogmas--even the very interesting dogmas of the dogma-hating Mr. Mencken. Education does not ignore the issues that confront the modern world, but, avoiding the ex cathedra dictation of belief, tries to lead the student to reason for himself, to cull and consider to become a thinking atom in a difficult universe of conflicting purposes...