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Word: aims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reunion or Yale game ever draws more than a small percentage back. But for the last fifty such groups to depart, there has been one permanent tie to the Square: The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, which has passed through a half-dozen editorships and half a century with the one aim of carrying Harvard to as many of her sons as care to remember...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Ribbons On It | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...Chief aim of the parley and of the OEEC is to assist the 16 ERP countries to dispense with outside aid by 1952, expiration of the present ERP. The OEEC works with America's Economic Cooperation Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Leaves for E.R.P. Talks in Paris | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

...Unconscious & Confession. The means psychiatry uses to make its cures are often experimental, and sometimes obscure. What about its ends? It aims to make its patients "wise up" to themselves -and thus get rid of a mysterious bellyache or a sad, twisted notion that a prince is coming to call any day now. That is an ambitious aim. Is it not, in fact, a challenge to religion on religion's own ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are You Always Worrying? | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel is that any mass of human beings can ever achieve a single, united aim, such as victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Human Odium | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...does the big majority want the Negro to be fairly treated in wartime, because at heart it believes that in a time of national crisis it is proper for the weak to be sacrificed to the morale of the strong, whose savage, intolerant instincts are essential to the prime aim-victory. "I really saw nobody all day who was not in one way or another odious," admits one of Author Cozzens' characters sadly-adding, "and, of course, in every situation, I was odious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Human Odium | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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