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Word: objective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shall Strike the Shepherd." Bluntly, he called Cardinal Mindszenty's arrest and sentence "a most serious outrage which inflicts a deep wound not only on your distinguished College and on the Church, but also every upholder of the dignity and liberty of man . . . The principal object of the trial was to disrupt the Catholic Church in Hungary and precisely for the purpose set forth in Sacred Scripture: 'I shall strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed' ... Now that things have come to such a pass that this most worthy prelate has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: When God Is in Exile | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...accept the invitation? If not, would he meet the President somewhere else? Stalin's answer was prompt: "To visit Washington has long been my desire," he confided. "I regret that at present I am deprived of the possibility of carrying out this desire of mine, since doctors strongly object to my making any long journey, especially by air or sea." He suggested that Truman come to Russia, perhaps to Yalta, or, if he would rather, "a meeting could be arranged in Poland or Czechoslovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Diplomacy by Handout | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Cannon & Good Sense. "His permanent achievements," Canon Smith writes, "were, for the most part, due to afterthoughts. He had a particular object and obtained it; the object had then to be justified by postulating a general principle, and, when the general principle was applied, unforeseen results ensued." In Henry's case, the results were serious and the rationalizing process monumental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hearty Good-Fellowship | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Gootonberg said that the HLU was able to find another distributor who supplied them with "Odd Man Out." The theater managers did not object to foreign films like "Shoe Shine" or "Ivan the Terrible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Announces Revision of Spring Film Series Schedule | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...scarcer. But last week, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology learned that they had not disappeared entirely. Founded in 1900 with a big endowment from Andrew Carnegie, Tech had just received $6,000,000 more from the W. L. (for William Larimer*) and May T. Mellon Foundation. Object: to set up a graduate school of industrial administration, the first of its kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Man Nobody Knew | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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