Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three plan to call their new magazine either "The Moon," or "The Lyre and Lute." "It will cost about 15 cents and resemble Punch a great deal," said Wiggin last night. "We aim to get away from the esoteric and the arty," he summarized...
...present deadlock in the Committee came Saturday when a previously-adopted agreement over fixed parity was scrapped. This had appeared at first to be a House victory, but now there is some question as to which side will come out on top. The aim of a parity program is to give farmers a stable purchasing power, based on some former period of prosperity. The House plan would determine such a period and then maintain it as the price base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks...
...coal strike differed from those of recent times in that the United Mine Workers never used their usual "no contract, no work" slogan. Instead, after the last contract expired on June 31, the miners inaugurated a three-day work week in an effort to strengthen their bargaining position. Their aim was to cut down existing coal stocks without the odium or financial stress of going out on strike...
...they worry about marriage. Observes popular Philosophy Professor Thomas Hayes Proctor: "Almost the sole sign of success is to get your man before graduation." Though almost all want to work for a while after graduation ("at some glamorous job," says one dean, "that will take them to Paris"), few aim at a career. But even most career girls nag their married professors to find out how a career can be combined with marriage. If the marriage rate of the past is any indication, eight out of ten will become wives. Moreover, as far as their deans can see, they...
...coming year, they will live with local residents and take any courses in the University they want. Typical of their aim in these studies was Herbert Kundler's remark that he wanted to see how a government can rule by good will or "must people be governed by discipline and fear...