Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Summer Term of '93 a bolt from the blue flashed down on Oxford. . . . Dons and undergraduates stood around, rather pale, discussing nothing but it. Whence came it, this meteorite? From Paris. ... Its aim? To do a series of 24 portraits in lithograph. . . . He was 21 years old. He wore spectacles that flashed more than any pair ever seen. He was a wit. He was brimful of ideas. He knew Whistler. He knew Edmond de Goncourt. He knew everyone in Paris. He knew them all by heart. He was Paris in Oxford...
...Einstein, snug last week in his Berlin Tower, was somewhat restless. "[We do] not describe Nature, but merely expectations from Nature," he said. "Whereas the aim of Science is to describe the things themselves, not merely the probability of their happening. . . ." He is confident that there is a cause for every phenomenon; that some day some scientist will be able to explain precisely why Mary started for the theatre, why she turned at the observer's tap, why she did or did not proceed to a particular performance...
...this stand by eminent authorities: William J. Bingham of Harvard and Reginald D. Root of Yale; it has seen Amherst abolish the distinction between major and minor insignia and Princeton place all minor sports upon the same footing. These are all indications of a trend toward a similar aim...
...kulaks were exiled or shot because their very status made them at least tacitly anti-communistic in sentiment. Intellectuals were disposed of for being moderately socialistic or expressing doubts regarding the wisdom of the extreme measures of the Soviets. So we see that communist methods are political in aim, in spirit, and in method...
...present losers, which means that the University, as it is now conceived, will suffer in the end. The Administration cannot afford to neglect this situation, or to allow financial barriers to block entrance to the Houses. To do so would be to defeat, from the start, the aim of the House Plan toward the establishment of cross-sections...