Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word 'stone' can never have the affect of the object. To say, 'I shall pull your nose' may be as effective in producing anger as to carry out the threat. A man's mouth waters when he first eats a lemon, then when he sees another eating it, then when he hears the word 'lemon'. When this occurs he has learned the meaning of the word. It is astonishing (with references to Pawlow,) how much you can tell by watching a dog's mouth water. I certainly think this idea of the conditioned reflex largely covers the question of meaning...
...work in "labor platoons" was sounded by the Government. The work offered, it was clearly stated, would be hard, manual. Dikes would be built along two small Saxon rivers whose chronic tendency is to overflow. No labor-saving devices would be used, labor being the project's main object. Each platoonsman would receive a wage of 50 pfennigs (12?) per day, could eat as much as he liked thrice daily, must sleep in labor platoon barracks, seeing his family only on weekends...
...Ives has worked out the problems of another method, which requires no special glasses or effort for the observer. He calls it "parallax panoramagram." An object is photographed from many points of view through a grating. The grating deflects and breaks up the image on the negative. The positive print is a blur unless viewed through a grating the duplicate of the camera's. Still pictures made and scanned this way are brilliantly realistic...
...matters stand the United States could apparently send marines into Carribean countries, as she has done in the past, with impunity. So long as "maintaining order" is the object, military action is a legal procedure, or could be so construed at least. Even the bombing of a town, if done in defense against a threat to national interests, might escape classification...
...17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. All books in History, Literature, Philosophy, and so forth which, by virtue of a historical rather than theoretical treatment of a subject of by virtue of date of origin, are associated primarily with a period in history are arranged in this fashion. The object of the plan is to enable the student in one field to visualize all the aspects of the period he is studying...