Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Library of Congress, where she built a chamber music auditorium, Coolidge Hall. To it she added the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, the greatest institution of music patronage in the world. On establishing the Foundation, Mrs. Coolidge wrote, "Fashion is an enemy to art, I think, and if we aim at a musical center which shall be as respectively national as the Library... it would be an easy matter to explain the emission of the society element. I have wished to make possible... the composition and performance of music in ways which might otherwise be considered too unique or too expensive...
...vain hopes and plans, but, Bucky, I can see how some day, if you and I just apply ourselves and make up our minds to work for bigger things, how we can some day live here in Washington, and probably be in Government politics or service. I set my aim at Congress. Don't laugh at me. Maybe it does sound rather egotistical and beyond reason, .but, Muriel, I do know others have succeeded...
...committee declared that the Smoker will aim to unify and bring the class together. The group also voted to have professional talent highlight the program. Student entertainers, however, will supplement the entertainment...
...subject such as speech is that, like English composition, those who need it most usually do not take it on their own initiative. It would be well to consider instituting a test for incoming freshmen not only to discover speech defects and any marked difficulties in expression, but to aim for a basic level of self-expression...
...With the aim of "stock-piling basic knowledge" in chemical research, the Du Pont organization has also instituted a program of grants-in-aid to ten universities for unrestricted use. Included in the program is Harvard...