Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...still the hordes came on, and at week's end even the Finns had to admit the Russians had several footholds on the coastal front. Obvious aim was to penetrate inland and cut the vital lines of communication from Helsinki to Viipuri, then sweep around behind the Finns' last-ditch defenses in the Mannerheim Line. Many a Finn was constrained to admit that a moderately honorable peace would be preferable to gradual strangulation by Joseph Stalin's Molasseskrieg...
...found time to take her M. A. finals. Unmarried, Miss Dunham spends twelve hours a day in the theatre, says her aim is: "To attain a status in the dance world that will give to the Negro dance student the courage really to study, and the reason...
...would have to take shorthand notes, but this would be permissible in a magazine frankly devoted to reproducing talks just as they are given. Informality would have to be the keynote of such a publication. Ranging over widely varied fields of interest, the choice of lectures should and could aim at popular consumption. As John Mason Brown has put it, they ought to "stand on their feet--not on their footnotes...
Similar campaigns will begin simultaneously at universities all over the country, with the aim of collecting a total sum of $10,000. Most of the fund will be held in reserve to combat measures suppressing civil liberties on the campus and tending to weaken the Student Union. The drive will last until...
...Swarthmore honor students, chosen by examinations at the end of sophomore year, have seminars instead of classes their last two years, study independently, are finally examined (written and oral exams) by outside educators. To carry out his second aim, Dr. Aydelotte, who is himself a crack golfer and onetime footballer, ruled that every Swarthmore boy and girl must spend some time on the college playing fields. At the same time he took Swarthmore out of bigtime athletics, restricted its games to teams in its own class. Unknown at Swarthmore are long, irksome hours of practice, subsidization of athletes. Swarthmore boys...