Word: object
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crapshooter's "Come seven, come eleven!" and other cabalistic cries really have any effect. Rhine's assistants eagerly concentrated on trying to throw high numbers (eight or above) or low numbers (six or below) at will. Results were recorded in "runs" of twelve throws each; the object was to get better than five hits (par according to chance...
Last week Joseph Patrick Ryan saw a chance to do democracy a kindness in return. One of his vice presidents, George W. Millner, is a Negro. So Joseph Patrick Ryan suggested that the union elect Millner for life-"as an object lesson to the entire labor movement that unity can be achieved by elimination of race, creed and color prejudice." At the same time, of course, the union might as well elect Mr. Ryan for life...
...current butt of Washington's quipsters-War Department's Pentagon Building-was the object of more serious criticism last week. Now it seemed that the cost of lighting, air-cooling and escalating it was too high. The Public Buildings Administration tried to needle the Federal Power Commission into doing something...
...really don't object to being called William M. Flook, Jr. '46, but when in the same paragraph you call the Network the Netwirk, I start getting mad and demanding a printed apology. William M. Flook, Jr. '44 President, Harvard Crimson Network...
Writing in Science, the Columbia psychologist explains that he started with the "safe" assumption that primitive man prattled like a child while at work and play. Observing his own children and grandchildren, Thorndike noted that these babblings sometimes repeated themselves in connection with the same act or object, at first by chance, then deliberately. Thus a primitive man may have babbled "ik" as he poked with a stick or "kuz" as he dug up a clam, then repeated the sound when he poked or dug again...