Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belonging to both bodies and men belonging to either, assert that there is no conflict between the aims of the two societies. This point is not likely to be contested. The natural objection takes just the opposite form: that there is too much coincidence of aim. The Association is obscure because its main purpose is to assure fair play for its constituency. Since there is little occasion to struggle for this precious possession at Harvard, the Association has won neither fame nor notoriety. Anyway, its function is to prevent unfair discrimination against professors and to assure them of proper salaries...
...laws, hastily decreed by Premier Laval as his Contribution to PATIENCE a few days earlier, deprive Frenchmen of the right to carry firearms without a permit and aim, somewhat feebly, to end the recent series of "surprise Fascist mobilizations" by making prior notice and police consent necessary for public assemblies. Since the Fascists can easily find private property on which to meet and a hay-wagon from which Leader de La Rocque likes to speak (see cut, p. 26), Paris' Fascist Echo de Paris could clarion last week: "The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse- the decree...
...fell over and he kinda looked up at me and I thought, 'I might not a got him but if I shoot him one more time I'll know I have him.' So I took both hands and I leaned over him and I took dead aim right between his eyes and I pulled the trigger. Then I saw the blood spurt and I knew I had him. Then I put my gun down in my jeans and I took out the streetcar a aimin' to go to Kentucky to my pappy's. . . . But first...
...committee of prominent undergraduates are sponsoring another Peace Meeting this year a meeting so moderate and thoughtful in aim, so sound and constructive in plan, that every thinking member of the University should support...
...year 1900 under the name of La Sociedad Espanola de Harvard, with an initial membership of 40. It was an enthusiastic group, judging by the activities of which we have record. Meetings often consisted of discussions of literary subjects, and about once a year a play was presented. The aim of the group was to foster friendly relations between our country and countries of Spanish speech and culture, and this goal has been kept over since...