Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...poverty ... removing one by one the many cruelties and crudities and barbarities of less civilized eras") and saw them menaced by a Hitler victory ("the school of destruction . . . those who seek to dominate hundreds of millions of people in vast continental areas-those who, if successful in that aim will . . . enlarge their wild dream to encompass every human being and every mile of the earth's surface...
Reorganization of secondary school education to fit it to modern needs must include, according to Dean Spaulding, an acceptance by the individual schools of their responsibility to help each student discover his special talents and help him make the most of them. As examples of schools where such an aim has already been established he cited vocational schools in New York and elsewhere, the Civilian Conservation Corps, Midwestern schools which encourage student investigations into community affairs, and others which make sure that a student leaving the school is prepared for a definite job, and which help...
...concludes, "In Regional Planning the situation would seem to be one in which the University has wisely sought advice as to ways in which a cherished aim may be achieved without unjustified expense...
Signs of the times take many forms. Last week thousands of normal U. S. adults-the kind who vote against war in Gallup Polls-played a new nickel-in-the-slot game. It had several names (Keeney, Sky Fighter, Sky Pilot), but the fun of all was to aim an imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...
...Poland. These speedy, relatively small single-motored ships have stout wings to pull them out of long, steep power dives at 430 m.p.h. Their crews are specially trained to stand the pressures of such performance. They carry only one 1,100-lb. or two 500-lb. bombs. These they aim by pointing the plane's nose at the target during its screaming dive. Theory is that 100 such bombs so aimed by 100 such hell-divers could not fail to blast the toughest target...