Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strike Him?" After an hour of fruitless questioning, the major asked Pirogov whether he had given any thought to his family back in Russia. "I object!" an American officer put in heatedly. "That's coercion." "What do you mean, coercion?" the MVD man replied in an injured tone. "Did I strike him?" After an hour's argument over what constituted coercion, the major was finally allowed to ask whatever he wanted. He drew a blank...
...triangle above the Square and the wide intersection below Claverly cannot be opened for parking remains a mystery which even fire safety officials cannot clear up. These gentlemen, who apparently feel that apparatus can get through the narrow, always crowded streets of the Square, could not reasonably object to parking in these areas which would not block the thoroughfare...
...object of their veneration is enshrined in a white stone building in the Pare de St. Cloud. When the pilgrims have filed down three flights of basement stairs, they will be confronted by two iron doors. Behind those doors, in a massive concrete vault, lies the object...
With reverence (and three keys), the scientists will open the doors. Inside, in a triple case of glass, hard rubber and wood, they will find, safe & sound, they hope, the venerated object: a softly gleaming bar of platinum-iridium. On its polished surface are two fine lines. When the bar's temperature is zero degrees centigrade, the distance between those lines is exactly one meter (39.37 inches...
...opposed to Communism and Fascism not only because they are un-American, but also because they represent barbarism and anachronism allen to our civilization. Our object is not to worship the goddess Free Enterprise, but, first to define and then investigate the system, and see how it can be improved for the benefit of all America and of the whole world. Sirius Proestopoulos, '51 Vice-President, Free Enterprise Society