Word: object
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three of southern Italy's antiroyalist parties proposed to call a ten-minute strike in Naples last week. Object: to protest once more against the British-U.S. alliance with dilapidated little King Vittorio Emanuele III and Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Specifcally, Italian antiFascists felt that Winston Churchill had let them down again in his recent declaration of Allied policy. Said Count Carlo Sforza : "In London they seem so busy mistrusting antiFascism that they forget . . . thousands of Fascists . . . eager to stab Britain and the U.S.A. in the back...
...hardest." Dali said he wrote his "long and boring" forthcoming novel in four New Hampshire months of '"fourteen implacable hours" of work a day. His heroine, Solange de Cleda, is a symbol of what he calls Cledalism-"pleasure and pain sublime in an all-transcending identification with the object...
Washington police were not impressed by seasoned Defense Attorney Miller's story of self defense, nor by the mysterious envelope-wrapped pistol found in Dr. Lind's sedan. Witnesses said they had seen the jealous husband take a "white object" from his pocket, drop it in the car. But Husband Miller, held "responsible" for Dr. Lind's death, was released on $15,000 bail. After all, he was respected, old, ill, wronged...
...blank screen. Another spectator flashes another beam. Then the chase around the screen begins. This can be funny when played by two experts. Another game, invented by the marines in New Zealand, is played with white rubber balloons, which are inflated and batted through the air. The object is to hit the balloons with lighted cigarets. This game keeps every spectator alert, lest he find a glowing cigaret down his neck...
...careful study of plowing v. other cultivation methods was made on Iowa experimental farms by U.S. and State soil experts. The new methods were disc harrowing (advocated by Faulkner), "lister-ing" and "subsoiling"-all of which loosen the soil without turning it over. The object is to leave on the surface a stubble "beard," both to check erosion and provide decaying organic matter as fertilizer. In the Iowa test these methods: > Produced bigger soybean crops than plowing, slightly smaller corn crops.† > Saved one-third to half of the man and machine power required by plowing. > Reduced soil erosion from...