Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recommendation that will almost certainly be the object of serve criticism in Tuesday's meeting is that certain students who receive advanced placement in three or more courses be admitted directly to the Houses as sophomores. But the Committee would encourage these men to remain in the College for four years, instead of graduating in three...
...procedural trivia. He yielded when opposition was time wasted. He forced the pace when the Russians sought delay. "If conferences can do nothing better than to create new conferences, and the new conferences do nothing better than to create more new conferences . . . the whole conference method will become an object of ridicule, and we with it," he warned Molotov at one point...
That night Marsh wrote to his uncle, George Peabody, a leading Boston financier, urging him to establish a museum. The chief object of the proposed institution was to be the collection of such ancient Indian remains as could still be obtained in America. Peabody had already expressed his intention of making a large gift to Harvard, and quickly approved Marsh's plan for the creation of general museum of archaeology and ethnology. Peabody's original gift, for the establishment of the Museum, made in 1866, was in three parts; a grant of $60,000 for a building...
...Africans round the table took heed: they well understood that if the cigar was lighted, Nigeria's hopes for early independence might easily go up in smoke. Lyttelton's object at the conference was to devise a new federal constitution that will enable Nigeria's 30 million to achieve self-government along the same lines as their neighbors in the boom ing Gold Coast, without falling out in the process. The Africans too are eager for independence - but divided in factions...
Then the practical difficulties began. Getting a body was not easy. It had to be someone recently dead, someone whose family would not object, someone who looked like an officer. Just as Montagu had decided that he might have to snatch a body from a graveyard, he found his corpse: a young man who had just died of pneumonia and whose relatives gave their permission on condition that his name never be divulged...