Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the Foundation is to operate, in connection with Harvard University, a completely equipped center where films and photographs of educational and scientific value may be produced, collected, and from which they may be borrowed. Plans are being laid for a film library of unprecedented dimensions...
...near San Francisco). The departure: at once, from San Pedro, port of Los Angeles, Calif. Probable itinerary: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, then either over the Andes by train or back to Panama and through the Canal on the Maryland, to the Argentine, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela. Duration: two months. Object: goodwill, trade relations, discovery, experience, inspection of U. S. consulates and commercial attaches...
...real object of my visit was to study and try to catalogue the sculpture of the Eighth century. This is chiefly centered around Nara, and so, using this town as headquarters, I managed to visit and inspect most of the temples and monasteries in the vincinity. I spent a great deal of time in the monastery of Horyuji. This is the oldest standing wooden building in the world. It was built in the Seventh century, and is a veritable treasure house for the most interesting and priceless of relics...
...certainly not difficult to perceive that any appreciable latitude in opportunity to shift Houses will soon lead to a general grouping on interest or class basis. That is, gentleman of leisure will tend to congregate in one House, determined scholars in another, publications men in a third until the object of providing each House, with a cross section of the whole college will be completely defeated...
Another interesting machine described at the meeting was the recording spectrophotometer devised by Professor Arthur Cobb Hardy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Electric's research staff. In the machine is a glass prism which breaks up the light reflected from any colored object into its spectroscopic lines. A chart of those lines is photographed and the picture may be sent by wire or wireless anywhere. Useful can this device be for recording the exact tints of textiles, oils, soap, cheese, lard, flour, butter, chocolate, glass, automobiles, tile, brick, roofing material, carpets, rope, hardware, paper, leather, cement, linoleum...