Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attending the exhibit, which will remain open during August, were in Geneva for the Congress of the World Federation of Education Associations, begun six years ago in the U. S. by Dr. Augustus Orloff Thomas. State Superintendent of Public Schools in Maine and President of the Congress. While the aim of the Federation is to discuss the significant movements in education, this year it is being devoted especially to the promotion of peace through education. Prof. Gilbert Murray of Oxford. President of the League of Nations Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, warned against expecting too much from teaching citizenship, foreign languages...
...silk stockings. Old Picrolas reveals that he is an eater of darkness. He controls a ray invention, by which he can not only see through distant men's brains but pulverize them as well. Hospitably, Picrolas offers Dograr a share in his ray-murders. Charmed, Dograr accepts. They aim the ray. Soon the city awakes to find Harry Hansen, William Soskin, Heywood Broun, Henry Seidl Canby, Asa Huddleberry and George Jean Nathan all dead. When the old man's hospitality becomes too exacting, Dograr leaves, preferring to have six Weber & Heilbroner shirts "in the Manhattan manner...
Wheat was the Board's primary problem. Between the Board and that crop, the harvest of which was moving north out of Kansas at the rate of 25 miles per day, a hard-driven race had developed. The Board's first aim was to interpose its relief machinery before this year's wheat crop heaps up on last year's carry over and again depresses prices. A scant two months remained in which to erect dikes against the grain flood. In that time a wheat advisory council had to be named by the Board. The council...
...social welfare Daniel Guggenheim turned in 1919, when he was 63. To the welfare of aviation he turned two Junes before Lindbergh flew to Paris. His aim was to make aviation a public utility. He gave New York University $500,000 for a School of Aeronautics. Next he established his Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, with $2,500,000 endowment. The Fund has in its two and a half years given $1,200,000 to various aeronautical educational institutions for research and instruction. California and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology and Leland Stanford, Michigan and Washington Universities...
Large of pate and paunch, small of eye and aim, Leader Watson perfectly typifies the old-style politician with whom the Hoover Administration is supposed to have little in common. But for that circumstance, Leader Watson could scarcely have asked for more favorable auspices when he set out in March to lead his party in the Senate: a successful election; a majority (on paper) of 16 Republican votes in the Senate; a Democratic opposition lacking a definite program; a new President, potent with the prestige of undistributed patronage. But even with these advantages Leader Watson, thought many of his fellow...