Word: objective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter-century ago in the southern part of Madagascar, a herdsman of the savage Tandroy tribe was tending his cattle on the banks of a river swollen by the torrential rains of late December and January. The tribesman caught sight of an object, bobbing lightly on the turbid water, which he would have described, had he chanced to be a U. S. college man, as a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty...
...about the theme, which is the masterly study by Dumas fils of a young girl who leaves the country for Paris, comes to love luxury and beautiful surroundings, and resorts willingly to free love as a means of achieving them. After the manner of Manon Lescaut, she sees no object in marriage even after Armand captures her heart and they spend an idyllic summer in the country at the expense of his chances to obtain a diplomatic position...
When George Moriarty, embattled mentor of the American League, gave an address recently, he kept up an unceasing pace, walking to and fro on the platform before his audience, remarking that "its harder to hit a moving object with a pop bottle than a stationary one." Pop bottles are as out of place at Soldiers Field as they are welcome at Fenway Park, and the Harvard team can rise to new heights of baseball proficiency when pop bottle tactics are banished from the bench and the bases...
...object to make the point clear that the H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs is not a monopoly of the "Crimson", or the undergraduate dailies, but primarily an undergraduate function. First-rate speakers have been selected to attend the tables, and money to finance the various expenses has been adequately supplied by generous alumni. The success of the Conference now lies in the undergraduates who take advantage of their opportunity...
...Persian view of an object and the aim in painting differs most from the view and aim of the West, in being naturally abstract. This abstraction as applied to a picture is vividly shown in four paintings from the early 14th century, illustrations from a Shah Nama, "The Book of Kings," by the poet Firdausi...