Word: goals
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...counties in the U.S., 934 have already been dried or partially dried since repeal of the 18th Amendment, (Kansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma are totally dry states.) The prohibition goal for 1944: to dry up 66 more counties, for a grand total of 1,000 and a round one-third of all the counties in the land...
Harvard's part in the Fourth War Loan begins today when the PBH War Bond Committee starts its big January drive on the three civilian Houses, Bertram A. Knight, chairman of the committee, announced yesterday. The goal set for the drive...
Because of the great response to the Third War Loan Drive of September and October, 1943, which topped the $2000 quota by $1000, a new goal of $3000 has been set. Adams House won the last Drive, with Dunster placing and Lowell showing...
...Comets, an Aurora (Ill.) basketball team of 10-to 13-year-old boys, last week made basketballers' eyes pop. In a Y.M.C.A. tournament, they averaged a field goal every 27 seconds to smother another moppet five, the Fritzies, 106-to-1. Before experts could hail them as a wonder team of prodigies, the Comets next day plummeted to earth. Against another Y team of coevals, they lost...
...State Department was thoroughly scooped on the Bolivian revolt. No hint or word of the impending uprising had come from the U.S. Ambassador, socialite Pierre de Lagarde Boal (rhymes with goal), an elegant career diplomat whose dispatches have unfailingly reflected the views of Bolivian tin-mine owners. From able Norman Armour, Ambassador to Argentina, there had been hints of forthcoming trouble, but since Norman Armour's business is Argentina, they were no more than that. The State Department had no solid, fresh information on which to base judgments on Bolivian affairs...