Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME (in its "historical series") tell the tale truly and well? If so, John Brown would be the last to object...
...conference of students from preparatory schools which will be held at Cambridge this year will serve two very useful purposes. The ostensible reason for the convention is to discuss the various problems arising from the social and religious work of school Y. M. C. A.s; the chief object of the visit and the one which is most pertinent to the University is to acquaint the future college students with some notion of the nature of colleges and college life...
...scrambled speech" method of telephony recently developed by the clever, hardworking scientists of Bell Telephone Laboratories. The invention consists of two complicated pieces of apparatus. One, located at the transmitting end, inverts ordinary speech in much the same way that a camera lens sets the image of an object on its head. Low tones become high squeaks, high pitches turn into low grunts. Tones are changed in frequency, resulting in a language which no eaves- dropper could understand. At the receiving end of the radio telephone a translating apparatus changes the inverted tones back to normal. The "scram-bled speech...
...Commission. With rumors rampant that it would recommend light wines & beer, that it would advise calling a Constitutional convention for considering Repeal, and above all that it was hastening its deliberations so as to present a report to the opening session of Congress on Dec. 1, the Wickersham Commission, object of concern to both Chairman Fess and Leader Linthicum. last week surprised Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock by summoning him. After hearing what he had to say, the Commission abruptly adjourned for ten days. This unexpected action forthwith was explained as an Administration measure to prevent Prohibition debate...
...fires last week. From the women's dormitory came the wail of "The Prisoner's Song." There had been trouble. Some eyes still smarted from tear gas with which the local constabulary had dispersed a mob of undergraduates who had attempted to enter the university heating plant. Object of entering the heating plant was apparently to blow the whistle, make further disturbance. Cause of this unusual activity: a general student strike, precipitated when Dean of Women Una B. Herrick ruled that all co-eds must be in their dormitories...