Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Secretary Wallace's hands the farm bill puts a three-pronged pitchfork with instructions to try to toss farm prices high up on to the wagon of better days. No doltish hired man, the Secretary is expected to start his price-pitching slowly and easily, watching his aim, studying his effects, conserving his power. Farmers who expect to see a sharp overnight rise in commodity values are ill-informed...
Back to Purnea, the Moth brought consistently discouraging news to the Houston-Mt. Everest Expedition. Flying conditions were bad. One day low hanging clouds obscured most of the surrounding terrain, an important drawback because the expedition's scientific aim was to map aerially 250 sq. mi. surrounding the peak. Another day a great white snow plume whirled menacingly about Everest's cone. The flyers were waiting for a wind velocity not to exceed 40 m.p.h. They fell impatiently to tinkering with their ships and equipment, already at taut perfection. They had been at Purnea nine days, but precious...
...breadth of aim in History and Literature has earned for it the sobriquet of department of Trends. Tendencies, and Traditions. As a matter of fact, there is a strong tendency, particularly, in the writing of honors essays, to concentrate on political theory as the most tangible expression of the spirit of any age. But it is one of the advantages of the department that men are allowed almost complete freedom to work mainly either in history or in literature or in political theory...
Unique in its aim, the Department of History and Literature is unique also in its organization. It offers no courses and has no graduate department -- two facts which help to account for the excellence of its tutorial instruction. History and Literature is again unlike any other field in having no written examinations for candidates for honors in the Senior year. A qualifying examination (identical with the general examination for Seniors) is given for Juniors in May. The Senior year is devoted to the honors essay -- to which the committee on degrees attaches much weight -- and to work in special subjects...
...statement issued yesterday reads: "In regard to enrollment in the Houses, it has been expressed as a general principle that the less expensive rooms ought not to be given to graduate students to the exclusion of undergraduates. The aim is to protect the interests of the undergraduate members for whom the Houses are primarily intended. It is naturally desirable and gratifying that members of the Houses should want to continue in residence as graduate students. But limits are necessary in order that the interests of the undergraduates may not be prejudiced, either as to the price or number of rooms...