Word: object
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...business has become so large in recent years that now the society finds its present main store is inadequate and has formed tentative plans for a considerable enlargement of the premises during the next summer vacation. This great development of the business shows how well it has fulfilled its object. Formed as a Co-operative Society for the benefit of its members, it has extended its operations in numerous directions and has become the largest retail store in Cambridge. Because of its prosperous condition the society will again this year pay its members a dividend of nine per cent...
...most celebrated European historians, a member of the Royal Academy of History, and one of the Civil Order of Alphonso XII. He intended coming to this country last year after a successful visit to the southern Spanish-American republics, but was prevented by illness. The main object of his visit is to bring about a closer relation between the Spanish American republics and Spain...
...possible that those members of the University who have not yet taken English A, may not know the meaning of the word Lampoon, and we advise such individuals to consult some standard dictionary. (A dictionary is a book that tells you things about words). Anyhow, it is still the object of the editors of the Harvard Lampoon to "try with trenchant pencil and sarcastic pen to hit off the foibles of our 'little world', and to open a field where the last jest at the club table, and the latest undergraduate freak may find a fitting place...
...formerly, it is still the object of the editors of the Harvard Lampoon to try with trenchant pencil and sarcastic pen to hit off the foibles of our "little world" and to open a field where the last jest at the club table, and the latest undergraduate freak may find a fitting place...
...Prospect Union on Central Square at which the teachers are all students, graduates and instructors in the University is an educational and social club for men, managed by wage earners. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers. It rests on a non-sectarian, non-partisan basis, being open to any man over seventeen years of age regardless of his nationality, creed, or station in life...