Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pupils, mostly day laborers and farmers, study a written syllable and the picture of a familiar object whose name begins with the same syllable (example: "new" and a newspaper). Eventually they get to know the syllable by itself. Says Director Gustavo Vallejo Larrea: "The most thrilling moment is when they read their first word without a picture. They consider it just short of a miracle-sweat, cry and try to kiss the teacher's hand...
Tito is interested in only one thing: a diabolical master plan, the object of which is to level the standard of living of Americans to that of the European peasant. . . . The starvation and death of several million Europeans is more to be desired than our contribution of $400 million to an international relief fund which would be used to fatten up the Balkan armies so they might be in a position to spit on us and thus start World...
Asked how long he would stay in this retirement, Gandhi said: "There is no limit. ... It may even be a lifetime. My object is to make Hindus and Moslems brothers and sisters. I can but make an attempt, success can be granted only by God. I shall do or die in Noakhali . . . even if all the Hindus go away, I shall be the solitary Hindu in Noakhali...
Laider demonstrated that the long run trend in the industry is toward nationalization, and asserted that the main object of his organization is to arouse public support for the democratic elements of this trend through educational campaigns...
...Professor Richards probed the question. Their findings were set forth in 1923 in "The Meaning of Meaning"; the now famous book on semantics. Ogden and Richards had found that many of even the most formidable intellects were forgetting an important thing-that the label or name of an object is not the object itself. Professor Richards shudders at so blunt and naive a formulation, and would rather put it that "the forms of language over-influence the forms of thought." Which meant that many philosophers were mistaking the word for the thing, communicating their meaning imperfectly, and in short often...