Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Education, and students who are intending to follow music teaching as a career should seriously consider taking such work as will prepare them for these courses. We shall never have a musical nation until we have adequate teachers of music; and it is this need that these courses aim to supply...
...Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, there opened the 22nd Annual International Exhibition. Its aim: to "tell the news of art in the world today." Countries represented: Sweden, Norway, Holland, Denmark, England, France, Spain, Belgium, United States. Individual paintings include works of all schools by leading artists of each. Spain alone is handicapped. Two of her greatest contemporary artists-Zuloaga and Sorolla-could not contribute. Sorolla has been stricken with paralysis and cannot paint again...
...recent resolution, the Board of Governors has forbidden the use of the wireless by its members either for advertising or publicity purposes, or for promiscuous relaying of Stock Exchange quotations. The latter will, however, be permitted in the case of broadcasting stations approved by the Exchange. The aim of the restrictions upon member advertising is to prevent undesirable public speculation; the Exchange's control of its prices is exercised to prevent their use by bucketshops...
Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the United States, speaking to the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, said: "The immediate aim of Fascismo is more economic than political. . . . Strikes have now come to an end. The efficiency of labor is increasing. Industries are picking up. Our financial and trade balances are rapidly approaching a position of equilibrium...
What is the net result? Henry and Nichols built a workable plot and play. Somebody--evidently the body politic of the Hasty Pudding--said "let's not be content with the average performance. Let's not aim to compete with the Mask and Wig and the Triangle--not just yet. But let's entertain. Let's not try to imitate a Shubert revue. Let's jimmy up a show, give everybody a whack at it, get a competent coach, do what he says, and have an awful lot of fun doing it." The proof of the Pudding was the eating...