Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which was under average. Minister-President Göring has contracted for about 1,500,000 tons of foreign grain, while June figures show that food imports increased 16%, all of which has to be paid for out of Reichsbanker Schacht's laboriously collected foreign exchange reserves. Aim of the grain requisition is to save for food two million tons of rye and a half-million tons of wheat previously fed to livestock. With Himmler's strong-arm squads on duty to watch for slackers, the farmers shrugged their shoulders, took humorous consolation in the Government...
...average "weight" or pull of a longbow-holding it at arm's length for 15 or 20 sec. Fatigue and nervousness often cause '"archer's freeze" which paralyzes the bowman's arm, prevents him from lifting it to the point of aim. Immunity to "archer's freeze" is a major requisite for winning the U. S. championship which is thus almost as much a test of pure physical endurance as of marksmanship...
...aware that he and his famed designer, W. Starling Burgess, must have good reason to expect the new boat to be a marked improvement. Rainbow's main fault was bad balance which kept her owner busy experimenting with ballast in 1934, but correcting this was not the only aim of the new venture. Trend in America's Cup boats since 1930 has been to build up to the limit of waterline length allowed by Class J specifications. When Rainbow (82 ft.) proved faster than Vanderbilt's 1930 Enterprise (So ft.), it suggested that an even longer boat...
...DEATH RIDES WITH VENUS-Arthur C. aim, social-hygienist-Grey stone (Manhattan...
...publishers honestly subordinate money-making to the aim of printing valuable literature whenever it turns up. But even they are likely to miss it either because they are slow in recognizing it or because they do not know where it can be found. To bridge this gap in communication between writers and readers small, independent presses every once in a while appear. Liable to crankiness, preciosity and short wind, a few nevertheless make themselves useful. Last week an interesting candidate for usefulness published its fifth book in a series devoted to "work of individualists." The press: New Directions, of Norfolk...