Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called it Soviet. He said: "I think it would be a sad day when the American people abandon the principles on which they have grown to greatness. This is perhaps one of the most important pronouncements that the Church has ever been called upon to make, and I object to being bound...
...seems that both the faculty and the students would cooperate enthusiastically to insure the move. Professor could hardly be expected to object to an audience formed of persons absorbed in all discussion. Moreover, students would fill an otherwise vacant hour by creating a symmetrical education, which is so essential to the business world. Syracuse Daily Orange...
...effect, the outline aims to make respectable, sanitary and uplifting the official "smut session" familiar to every preparatory school and college student. "One object of [the word] test," say its authors, ''is to draw off the emotional tension of the group-to get them talking and laughing freely over their own responses; to win one another's confidence and to gain confidence in the leader; to see how many absurd and unfounded opinions we hold. . . ." Words are given to the boys & girls, to be pondered for not more than five seconds, crossed out if disagreeable. Sample words...
...document the contents of which have a rather familiar ring is a petition by the residents of Stoughton Hall "that some measures may be adopted, by which better care may be taken of our rooms." "At present," the petition reads, "the object seems to be to do as little as possible, and in as short a time as possible, and finding that our personal requests and remonstrances have no permanent effect, we adopt this mode of seeking redress...
...Manchuria, comprising the Three Eastern Provinces of China with an area of 363,700 square miles and a population of nearly 30,000,000, has been the paramount object of Japanese expansion for about thirty years. The South Manchuria Railway Company, a Japanese Government-controlled concern, led the exploitation of the country with a view to monopolizing all economic and industrial enterprises and crushing the interests of the Chinese themselves. In recent years, however, the Chinese have been developing their own industries and Japan felt aggrieved, as she saw they would obstruct her grandiose schemes. Not a few Japanese urged...