Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object of the Department of Military Science and Tactics to give ROTC students practice with this set of guns, in order that they may become acquainted with the use of the panoramic sight and gun squad work under almost actual conditions. While the pieces have a wide range of dispersion, due to the cylindrical contour of the projectile, it is nevertheless possible to hit a "house" three inches high at a distance of 75 yards...
...waiting circle. Far above a bearded man in flowing dress held up his hand, stilled the crowd, then spoke in learned Latin. He stopped, murmuring remarks rose from the group then fell again in silence. He raised both hands toward the sky, a moments wait, and then, two objects fell from his steady fingers. The size of one was many times the other, and yet, as they sped past the pillared balconies, the waiting men below observed their speed to be the same, then with resounding thud, they fell simultaneously to the soft grass below, landing as one object...
Roared he: "The economy which concerned itself only with private gain is being replaced by an economy which has as its principal object the safeguarding of the interests of collectivity. . . . The workers must enter ever more intimately into the productive processes, participating in its necessary discipline. ... If the last Century was the century of the power of capitalism, the present Century is the century of the power and glory of labor." (Applause, applause, applause...
...weather permits, anyone so desiring may learn of the secrets of the heavens through the telescope at the Observatory. Saturn, the ringed planet, will be an object of special interest to amateur investigators...
...European students, we are surprised to perceive the attitude with which the recent assassinations in Marseilles are being received by the American press. It appears that the main object of interest with regard to this terrible affair is the story of the Boy-King Peter and how he received the news of his father's death, or how the Queen wept over her husband's corpse. It is strange also that, in a country so democratically minded, interest should be concentrated on glorifying the career of a somewhat doubtful Balkan Monarch to the exclusion of any concern at the calamity...