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Word: objections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eamon de Valera, Prime Minister of Eire, accepted an invitation to be an overnight guest, May 7, at the White House. Object of trip: world's fairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Common Cause | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Little different from conventional debuts whose object is to introduce young girls to polite society and eventually to the career of marriage was the debut held last week at the White House (see above). But very different in principle from such debuts are other debuts-a handful of which now take place every year-which provide a glittering preview of young women who are launching on a career somewhat like that of a cinema star, the career of Glamor Girl. Outstanding debut of last week in Manhattan was a party that had all the earmarks of a champagne christening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the Ritz | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Trade Winds (Walter Wanger-United Artists). On Nov. 24, 1935, Director Tay Garnett sailed from Los Angeles in the yacht Athene. With him he took a camera crew, a complete film laboratory. His object: a 50,000-mile round-the-world cruise to gather material for his next picture. Last week, when the result of his expedition was released as Trade Winds, audiences expected that, as a travelogue, it might be a pleasant surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...National Defense. In the democratic jitters after Munich they saw a glittering opportunity to butter up and stimulate heavy industry without surrendering to it on the issues of labor, utilities, regulation. The bright prospect to them was that businessmen who got Government millions in armament orders could hardly object to continued and even intensified regulation, especially if it were in the name of National Defense. Public health, housing, power, all could be tied to Rearmament-for-uplift, and Franklin Roosevelt would have a new touchstone for his general program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rearmament v. Balderdash | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...years ago F. C. Packard, Jr. '20 assistant professor of Public Speaking conceived the idea of a "vocarium" in order to make a collection of records of speech and, with this object in mind, has had a number of recordings made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ultra-Modern Recording Instrument Recently Acquired for Poetry Room | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

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