Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WANTED: Two sweet little bits of something. Object: Bisection...
Justifying the use of an imperfect system by the assumption that students did not object to the burden of finals with hour exams, the Administration never suspected a malfunction in the ancient plan. The early weeks in October were charted as a period of student adjustment to new courses and any scheduling of make-ups after hour exams appeared academically unsound. However, an informative sample of the eighty-nine men listed for re-examination this term indicates great dissatisfaction with the present system and vividly points up the need for a more equitable testing policy. Unanimously opposed to the current...
...Marseille comes of a long line of rich soapmakers. In the family's heyday, she says, her great-grandfather opened the Marseille Prefecture Ball by escorting the Empress Eugénie on his arm. In these rowdier days, Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has taken to the political soapbox. Her object is to organize women as "The Amazons of Peace." The amazonian slogan: "War on Man, to Get Peace for the World." The first step is to try to win for women the municipal elections of Marseille, where Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has rallied 283 Amazons...
Lovesick Ladies. The Victorian novelists, Dr. Dunbar thinks, were pretty "realistic" after all: "Their prim and prissy heroines succumbed in droves to an epidemic of ladylike behavior. Disappointed in love or deprived by the malignity of fate of some adored object, they went into gentle declines and perished with immense propriety. ... A great many victims of tuberculosis today are doing the same. . . . They are those baffling cases for whose ailments no thoroughly sound explanation can be given in terms of their lungs alone...
...object of this fruitless expedition was first started in 1919 when John Phillips Sousa was the man to be reckoned with and Harvard yet to be heard from. Stomping through the halves of games in the days when Red Grange was carried two miles by jubilant admirers, the Band reached its full growth in the 30's when "Wintergreen" and other Leroy Anderson arrangements filled the Stadium when the teams weren't trying. Perfecting its half-time lock step, the Band could soon wind itself through 33 letters in 7 1-2 minutes while simultaneously playing a medley...