Word: object
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy does not object to thought as such, but prefers to have it muted. Gutty, caustic Joseph Taussig never muted his ideas on reforming the cumbersome naval bureau system, reorganizing the fleets, pussyfooting with the Japanese, many another controversial subject...
When grapnels touched "an object" at 73 fathoms (440 feet) submen knew what to expect: at that depth and pressure (almost 200 Ib. per square inch) the old O-9 must have folded, bow to stern, like an accordion. Oil slicked the surface. Cork, from the O-9's inner walls, bobbed up into the glare of searchlights. Pieces of the O-9's deck gratings, flakes of paint appeared. In the press room at the Portsmouth base, a Navy veteran said: "Boys, that...
...first reported effect of the law was to keep 20th Century-Fox from adding more bullfight scenes to Blood and Sand to please Mexicans. But the object of the law was something else. If other Latin-American countries follow Mexico's lead, producers will have to portray Latin Americans as Latin Americans like to be portrayed...
...Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object of which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life...
...technical and complicated. "Yet at bottom lay a simple principle" - the survival of the fittest, the theory of value and surplus value, the leitmotiv and its function. "The public could thus enjoy the double pleasure of simpleness and profundity. . . . Physical struggle led to survival, physical labor to value, physical object to musical theme, and at the end each system yielded the most exalted objects of contemplation; the adaptation of living forms; a perfect state, a religion of art and the regeneration of mankind...