Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Budget Bureau remarked in its summary that it saw nothing to indicate that the animal was a suicide, and it suggested respectfully that the President should not object to signing the bill to pay Farmer Madison his due, even though the creature was just a horse and not a good Missouri mule. Harry Truman, a reasonable man in such matters, signed his name to the bill and awarded Farmer Madison $75 after six years of waiting. Then, to set his Budget Bureau right, the President appended a footnote...
...football season, already an object of considerable interest in some parts of the country, fortunately does not get moving locally until one week from Saturday. "Fortunately," because the comparatively late starting date provides Coach Lloyd Jordan with one more week of pre-season practice time than that available to any of his opponents, most of whom open this weekend. Yale, whose schedule calls for an open date before the Elis play Princeton, has already successfully inaugurated its season...
...Light coming from a moving object has a slightly changed wave length and therefore makes a displaced mark on a spectrograph's plate...
Most of the people came out of the water a purplish-blue from cold. Their teeth chattered uncontrollably and they clutched the nearest object with unreasoning desperation after being hauled to safety. Occasionally their rescuers pulled aboard a corpse. The living gradually told a disjointed tale of disaster. The gleaming white hospital ship, on a shakedown cruise after being taken out of mothballs, had been rammed by the 15,000-ton freighter
...Cold Does It. Langmuir, the man of theory, soon worked out the "mechanism." It was the low temperature of the dry ice, not its carbon dioxide, that did the trick. Any very cold object, e.g., a needle cooled with liquid air, served as well...