Word: object
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans for factories that would not produce arms until later. The war effort had succeeded in establishing the full priority of things military over things civilian, but now priorities were being established among military items. For the first time U.S. priorities were apparently being dictated not by the general object of beating the enemy, but by a specific grand strategy -the strategy of all-out effort...
...person four ambassadors and three ministers. The seven are Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., already minister to the exiled Governments of Greece, Czecho-Slovakia and Yugoslavia, Ambassador to the exiled Governments of The Netherlands, Poland and Belgium. Last week he was named Ambassador to the exiled Government of Norway. Object: a tribute to that country's "unrelenting resistance" to the Nazis...
...advantage-operation on interior lines-may continue to win him battles. But it cannot win a global war from a foe that still hems him in. On this basic principle of strategy the Jap got two object lessons last week...
...treatment a given art subject receives for protection rests on four elements: first, the resistance of the medium in which the object is executed, second its shape, third its rate of deterioration, and last in the case of restorations, the extent of repairs. The report of the conference also gives tables in which the materials are rated by their resistance...
Under the supervision of Dr. Frederic L. Wells, the psychologist, the participant is presented with a paper covered with a multi-colored ink spot. He is asked to tell what he sees on the page, whether it be bugs or Hindu death masks, and each object is recorded by Dr. Wells. This is the Rorschach test which contributes to the formulation of personality traits. Lists of words are read to the man, and he repeats the first thing that comes into his head. Finally, several pictures are given him, and he writes a little story on several which...