Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time followers of football have keenly felt this desire. Especially is this the case with fans in the west who object rather strenuously to their fellow fans of the east resting all too complacently on the fallacious assumption that because their teams do represent the staid old east they play the superior brand of football. Fans in the west have for some time now quite strenuously objected to this unwarranted supposition, and deny that there is any sound basis for it until it is proven in actual play on the gridiron...
...industry itself. Executive responsibility cannot be given to an untried man and a period of personal probation is therefore necessary for every man. The graduate of the Business School should be able to learn the routine of his job during this period of personal probation, and since his object is to get promoted out of routine work into a position of executive or administrative responsibility, we spend our time in the School giving him the breadth of training needed to qualify him for promotion. We aim to equip our men so that they can keep out of narrow business pockets...
...methods used in the construction of the Index of Business Conditions are new. The Index has as an object to set forth, first, the conditions in individual industries; second, the general business situation; and third, the probable business developments in the immediate future. Before definite conclusions are drawn from statistical date, underlying economic conditions are investigated by analyzing the conditions surrounding the industries or institutions used as sources of data, by studying the functions of such industries in our business organization, and by determining the reliability of the data. Variations due to gradual growth or "secular trend" and to seasonal...
...most important word in the name of the above-mentioned society is Temperance. The object of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is to make others practice this virtue; but there is a proverb called "practice what you preach." The Women's Christian Temperance Union seems to have started on a prohibiting spree; and it might be better for itself and the world in general if it applied the practice of Temperance to its own activities...
That campaign has succeeded--with the result that Germany is to be favored with that trade which should have been ours, the relations between France and England are becoming more strained each day, France is in a fair way to be pauperized, and England is an object of suspicion the world over...