Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 3. This conference was changed from Northfield to Silver Bay last year because of the advantages the latter has with its seventy buildings, athletic grounds, and beautiful location on Lake George which is in that district known as "the "Switzerland of America" because of its scenery. The object of the conference is to discuss social, religious and economic problems of the day. A series of lectures will be given by men who are expert in these fields...
...special historical articles by experts, together with a summary of the five major sports from their beginning. For illustrations there will be approximately 200 group pictures of major teams in the period that covers the era in which athletics have been an important factor in college life. The main object of the committee in preparing the book is to give a complete and unified story of the University's half century or more; to preserve in permanent form, for the use of graduates and others, an important chapter in the life of the college...
...interest Harvard men in one of these questions, that of Armenia, was, Mr. Morgenthau declared, his chief object in coming to speak at Cambridge. He then proceeded to give a brief history of Armenia, explaining that it had suffered more than the other countries of Asia Minor during the past centuries, because it has been the buffer state between Western civilization and the invading Asiatic hordes. The last of these invaders were the Turks, who have remained, and have succeeded, after 700 years, in absorbing into their barbarism all the civilization that their conquered countries had built up for thousands...
...means," said Mr. Stoddard. "In England it was established by law in the mining districts as far back as 1890. The great impulse toward it came during the war, when shop committees were established in many industrial plants of this country by the War Labor Board. The chief object of this was to increase the production of labor, and therefore production committees as well as grievance committees were established...
Nowadays when one wants to be particularly nasty, he calls the object of his wrath a "socialist". "Bolshevik" and "communist" are other terms frequently used--all in a very vague but uniformly defamatory manner. Yet not so long ago, these words were in perfectly good repute; and though it might stamp one as a crank and impractical idealist, to be a socialist or communist was not held to be a stain on one's character. Just so the little word "liberal" has come to "cover a multitude of sins", this time as a camouflage for less respected designations. Properly speaking...