Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surely someone on the staff has heard the tiny silver bird in the sculpture group mark the hour by its song. Perhaps you object to being given the bird every hour on the hour...
...official London Gazette announced that Dr. Watts had been awarded the George Medal for "courage and devotion to duty of the highest order." Admonishing reporters not to "make a song and dance about it," Watts reluctantly gave a few pointers on method: "I started knowing that such a small object, to be explosive, had to have an acid-operated fuse or an electric current. Gentle prodding told me which. These letter bombs were all of the electric-fuse type. All I had to do was to find the wires between battery and fuse, snip them and breathe easily. The rest...
Says Group Therapist Dr. Joseph Abrahams, taking a crack at carpet weaving and other traditional therapeutic practices: "What they're trying to do is to reach back toward society . . . The object is for them to learn to live with people, not with rugs...
...wing gets moving well above Mach I, the air behaves reasonably again, but in a novel manner. From the leading edge of the wing, two intense sound waves flare off like the bow waves of a boat. Two more flare off from the trailing edge. If the moving object has any irregularities or sharp curves, these are apt to trail their sound waves...
...become the gangsters of today, and they are much smarter and more dangerous, we are told, than the old gangs used to be. A disguised FBI agent (Mark Stevens) hangs around the hard streets of a large provincial city and gradually works his way into such a gang. His object: to identify those responsible for a chain of thefts and killings...