Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parade, Clevelanders found no puerile product of juveniles writing about their friends, but a trim, well-mounted magazine which came creditably close to its aim: a smartchart for Cleveland...
...wants but what an experienced trainer would prescribe, neither too much nor too little, but just enough to keep him fit. It is true no dean or president is or ever will be endowed with the superhuman insight to prescribe precisely the desired stimulus, but that should be the aim...
...consider the case of "Harvard," a word of two syllables. For Harvard men to endeavor an imitation of the Yale machine-gun chatter would be simply ridiculous. And so, very wisely, they aim at the dignified and sonorous effect: "Harvard! Harvard!! Harvard!!!" Here the accent is on the first syllable with a fine, open vowel sound; the result is vocally excellent...
Year ago in Los Angeles appeared a new local monthly magazine called The Critic of Critics. Its announced aim was "to rid the city of such persons as Mayor Porter, Rev. Robert ["Fighting Bob"] Shuler, and show up other long hairs who try for fame or money by limiting personal liberty of Americans." In ensuing months the scope of the publication grew wider, its purpose less clearly defined. A typical article of last month's issue was "Guy McAfee, 'Capone' of L. A."-an expose of the purported vice-reign of Former Policeman McAfee. The magazine...
...method. The particular trouble in this case is the disappointingly and even dangerously low grade of the public service officials who administer penal and correctional institutions, departments of probation, parole boards and other public and private agencies dealing with delinquency and criminality. The significance of this lies in the aim to help the public agencies which every one thinks of in this connection. The recent scandal in the New York police force and the ill-success of the present officials in preventing crime are sufficient comment on the need of a change...