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Word: aims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Producer Walter ; Wanger has a theory of picture-making akin to Baseball's immortal Willie Keeler's formula for a good batting average ("Hit 'em where they ain't"). Hence this film, a reworking of the essentials of Allene Corliss' Summer Lightning (cloudbursts & all) aims soberly at the heart where most other cinemakers would aim at the funny bone. Whether the box offices will consider Producer Wanger as nifty a batter as Willie Keeler is another matter. Few Hollywood producers dare strike whimsical notes on the polymorphism of the ant, the physical advantage the paramecium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...their route between Fort Cumberland and Fort Pitt and give the market to the Pennsylvanians, who were trading over a more northern route. His request, said Washington, "can give no offense to the Indians, nor any one else, unless there be People in the world, so selfish, as to aim at a Monopoly of those advantages which may follow a Trade to Pittsburg & the Country round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Washington to Gage | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Aim to Check Reactionaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Harvard Professors Endorse Social Legislation Parley to Be Held Sunday | 1/13/1938 | See Source »

...assume, however, that this Sophomore has made business his aim. What is there for him to do three years ahead which will better help him to reach his goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First in Series of Articles on Alumni Placement Office Advises Upperclassmen to Register Soon | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

...voiced by President Conant at the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936, the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week urged scientists of the world to unite in an examination of the effects of science on society. At a gathering at Indianapolis, Indiana, the plan was advanced with the aim of promoting world peace and intellectual freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Scientists Adopt Conant Plan to Investigate Social Effects of Science | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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