Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hundred charred heaps (where houses had stood) and a hospital (untouched) were all that remained last week of the coastal town of Namsos (see map). In the snow outside the hospital French doctors had stained a giant crimson cross, which German bombers respected. The Germans' ability to aim was proved by gaping holes in the little (800 ft.) town quay, where some 15,000 British and French troops had landed from small boats, from big transports (including the 21,833-ton Empress of Australia, see p. 25) that had to anchor out in the fjord...
...could make his team hustle. There were no squabbles or arguments with umpires, and the players moved when they came on and off the field. They played nine innings of ball against Columbia in about an hour and thirty minutes--that's a real goal for college baseball to aim...
...addition to studying the economic conditions in South America, the Summer School course planned by Economic Tours, Inc., will aim at improvement of relations between the Americas by direct contacts of individuals...
...planned that each student on the trip will have an opportunity to follow his own particular interest, although the essential aim of the course is to study trade and foreign exchange problems...
...This map shows unmistakably that the main aim of England and France is the dismemberment of the German Reich. The Western Powers want a powerless Germany, the same as was created through the Westphalian Peace of 1648."* These words were addressed to Berlin's foreign correspondents, one day last week, by Professor Victor Bruns, an authority on international law who served as Germany's counsel at the World Court. The map to which he referred appeared in the background of a picture of U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, French Premier Paul Reynaud and an interpreter...