Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Night at Earl Carroll's (Paramount) concerns operations at Showman Earl Carroll's pale green "theatre restaurant" on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. There is unconsciously aimless comedy by Ken Murray and others, and the Earl Carroll chorus girls strut stiffly about the stage in irrelevant maneuvers involving immense fans and Christmas-tree headgear...
Spotters caught the enemy in focus. Archies opened up. The first roar had not died when a roar of British throats took its place. Down the sky like an aimless maple-seed pod fluttered a crippled Fiat. Two parachutes opened and floated down. They were seen to land on the sea, but the gear dragged the pilots down before a destroyer could gaff them...
...good place for a citizen to test his faith in democracy is the gallery of the U. S. House of Representatives. Down below, in that swarm of 435 members, small men, bound by the small necessities of politics, outnumber big men. House debate often sounds like an aimless caterwauling; order, purpose, logic more often than not seem lost in a parliamentary jungle. Yet there is order, of a kind. It is arranged and enforced by a few members: the Majority and Minority Leaders, the chairmen and ranking members of key committees (Rules, Ways & Means, Judiciary, Appropriations)-and above...
...check aimless, expensive, rumor-inspired wanderings, Texas State Employment Service officials conferred with Californians. Texas has 600,000 migrants, 450,000 of them Mexicans. Before 1936 they spread over the State: West Texas migrants drawn by tales of good crops and high pay in the East passed westbound migrants drawn by the same story about the West. Employment service catalogued the labor needs of every farm in every county (spanning a distance as great as that from Detroit to New York), planted supervisors at crossroads to trace the ebb & flow of men, set up 106 control stations, now delivers...
...mean between specialized and diversified study. The last two years has seen the development of combined fields of concentration, and this year will see a beginning of the area concentration plan along with more flexible entrance requirements. All of these projects are steps away from four years of aimless wandering spiced with only an occasional massage of the intellectual backbone. They indicate that American education is changing slowly, but surely...