Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These scholarships, which correspond to the Rhodes Scholarships for American university students at Oxford, were presented by Mrs. Henry P. Davison in 1922. They are in memory of her husband, and have as their aim the fostering of good will between the United States and Britain...
...goes hand in hand with the progress of electric energy." . . . In Great Britain the use of electric energy is much less per capita than in the United States and the energy is not produced or sold as cheaply as here. ... A cheap and abundant supply of electricity is our aim. . . . This will have a beneficent effect upon British industry and tend to alleviate the unemployment problem...
Baker Library would also aim to become a treasure house of information on business that is past. To this purpose the Aldrich Room, the corporation collection, and the original document division, are severally devoted. The Aldrich Room, founded on the collection of finance material assembled by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, forms the center for the provision of material on banking, finance, and the tariff, covering both the distant and recent past; while it also serves as a reading room to those who would study at leisure the development of the United States in these lines...
Concluding Salesman Collier's text was the slogan: "Get the weight of a common aim, a common purpose, behind both your prayers and your work. go TO CHURCH...
...Spotted, or being put on the spot, usually refers to being lured by supposed friends to a place within the aim of waiting gunmen...