Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note to Moscow the State Department bluntly warned that "should the Straits become the object of attack or threat of attack by an aggressor, the resulting situation . . . would clearly be a matter for action on the part of the Security Council of the United Nations...
...worst mess in its history, and the cinema is the instrument with which to improve it." But to do it, Hollywood must produce 1) more Protestant films; 2) better Catholic films. Pictures like The Bells of St. Mary's, says he are so bad that "even Catholics object.' These films show only the superficial aspects of religion. The average man should be forgiven if he considers them propaganda. To treat a clerical collar as the epitome of religion is a mistake. There are people in the world who have never heard of Christ...
Part of the French disillusionment reflects itself in the extreme elevation of money to the position of the most worthwhile and therefore the most desired object in and possession of life. Many Frenchmen openly admit that money is the only thing in life they have an interest in now. A dollar now brings a top price of 185 francs. The foreign visitor to France must trade his money illegally to live; it is not a matter of making a profit at the expense of the French--the opposite is more likely...
...famous Declaration, Foreign Secretary Arthur (later Lord) Balfour informed Lord Rothschild, the prominent British Zionist, that "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object." Britain's League of Nations mandate over Palestine incorporated this pledge. From the double root of those conflicting promises to Arabs and Jews has grown the present conflict...
ASDIC, designed for submarine hunting, sends ultrashort sound waves through the water and any sizable object reflects them. During the war, this fact frequently caused depth-bombing of whales, torpedoing of schools of pilchards. But as ASDIC and its operators improved, they learned to distinguish skillfully between echo-making objects, could even tell big from little fish...