Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound social aim...
...dozens of great fires broke out and Chinese and Japanese shells not aimed at the Settlement screamed over it. there were gruesome accidents. The Chinese motorman of a Shanghai trolley car, seeing that a big bomb was going to land in the street ahead of it, applied his brakes and yelled warnings to his 14 passengers, clanged his bell. An instant later the bomb exploded 20 feet in front of the trolley, blew it to blazes, killing the motorman, all his passengers and some people standing in the street, while other pedestrians who miraculously escaped found their clothes soaked...
When the Farnsworth Room was opened some twenty-one years ago, it ushered in a brand new approach, so far as the Harvard College Library was concerned, to the problem of supplying the student with books and encouraging him to read them. The prime aim was to put the reader at his case, to "make him feel at home," and to this end the room was comfortably furnished and attractively draped, and red tape was reduced to a minimum. No elaborate card-catalogues or "systems" were employed, and the nucleus of what is now a collection of five thousand volumes...
...Aim of the course, says Professor Abbott, is to provide students with "irreducible minimums" of information upon every phase of picture making and its history, thenceforth to direct individual study along lines of special interest...
...held during the first week of November. The names of the winners are engraved on the cup. There will also be two singles regattas one for the Houses and one open university regatta. What there will be of rowing eights will be informal and will have as its aim the development of oarsmen for the spring House boats...