Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peach Plan. California peachgrowers, with harvest time not far off, last week were wondering how many of their trees to uproot. For peaches from uprooted trees the canners' pool will pay an extra $2.50 a ton. Object: to reduce California's orchards by 12,000 acres, lessen overproduction next year...
...takes place between teams representing Eton's 70 scholarship students, the Collegers (called "Tugs" from their traditional toga-like garments of black broadcloth) and the Oppidans (the rest of the students). The Wall Game is played with a football the size of a grapefruit against a long wall. Object is to dribble the ball down the wall and send it through a goal. This is almost impossible under the complicated rules; only three goals have been scored in the last century. The game lasts an hour, and since it is unlikely that any score will be made, the winner...
...girl with whom both are in love. She (Rose Hobart) falls in love with the more personable of the two (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) when he is home on leave. When the other brother learns of it, he loses interest in the War and, feeling thoroughly cheated, does not greatly object to being killed. Before dying, he shakes hands with the lucky brother who, severely wounded, goes back to England and the girl. Chances might have been a better cinema if fewer shots of wheels, particularly wheels with balloon tires, had been shown in those stenographic flashes which...
...consort in comely, blonde June Taylor, who continued as his field-manager. Last week it was hinted that Prosecutor Clark had some sort of understanding with the Taylor woman; that Crawford had threatened him with exposure on the eve of this week's election. Immediately she became the object of a search by police-the inevitable "key witness...
Diplomats Browbeaten. Urging prompt acceptance of his pact "in principle" M. Litvinov said bluntly: "If you want Soviet orders you cannot object to Soviet exports. The Soviet Union is not the only country exporting raw materials. . . . The exports of Tsarist Russia were far greater than those of Soviet Russia, yet they were not condemned. . . . We are only starting out to regain our place in the world markets. ... I am here to offer a pledge that the Soviet Union will adhere to the principle of peaceful co-existence at this given stage of history...