Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somewhat shopworn old devil, the Victorian Age. Monica, only daughter of anxious parents whose every nerve was strained to do the socially right thing, was in a ticklish position from the very start. By her mother, her friends, her teachers it was dinned into her marrow that the one aim in life of every nice girl was to have & hold a Husband. Potential husbands were scarce, aware of their own value, easily frightened, had to be lured with a mingled sway of coyness and charm. Had Monica only minced down the narrow, correct way she had been taught, the prize...
...shoot holes in the trade of other nations with the British Commonwealth is the aim of the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa, whether or not any bull's-eyes are hit. As between the U. S. and Canada, what hits may be made? Last week anxious traders . analyzed Canadian-U. S. trade as follows, using statistics of 1930, the last approximately normal trade year...
Grand total Canadian imports from the U. S. were $600,000,000 while the U. S. bought $400.000,000 from Canada. Obviously the above 21 categories of U. S.-Canadian trade are among the biggest bull's-eyes the Ottawa delegates have to aim at. They were just getting their hands in last week. Ten days after its first session the Conference was barely under...
...flies through a golden twilight in which "night was rising like a tawny smoke." Presently the evening becomes less calm. At the airport, Rivière, "who was responsible for the entire service," waits anxiously for Fabien and two other mail planes to arrive. Rivière's aim is to "love the men under your orders but do not let them know it." Cold hostility for the minor inefficiencies that, in a flying service, are the likeliest causes of catastrophe, makes him appallingly but mercifully severe. While Riviere waits, two of the planes arrive. Fabien's young...
...given?either by lowering barriers among ourselves or by raising them against others. The choice between these two must be governed largely by local considerations. But subject to that, it seems to us that we should endeavor to follow the first rather than the second course. . . . Let us, therefore, aim at the lowering rather than the raising of barriers if we cannot fully achieve our purpose now, and let us remember that any action we take here is bound to have its reactions elsewhere...