Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the Academy, according to Article 24 of its charter, is stated thus: "The principal function of the Academy shall be to labor with all care and diligence and give certain rules to our language, and to render it pure, eloquent and capable of treating the Arts and Sciences." And, in the famed Letter of the Academy to Cardinal Richelieu, the members proposed "to cleanse the language from the impurities it has contracted in the mouths of the common people, from the jargon of the lawyers, from the misusages of ignorant courtiers and the abuses of the pulpit...
...next hour, the Europeans had the air and the Americans were supposed to do nothing but listen. The experiment was hardest on the Europeans because it was held from 3 to 5 A. M. London time, which in the U. S. are respectable hours of the previous evening. The object of choosing such inconvenient hours for the Europeans was, of course, to have the favorable atmospheric conditions which night affords...
Nationalists in other quarters may well take Egypt as an object lesson. The gentle hint has been given that the idealism endorsed at Versailles, like that of Alexander I at Vienna, must not be taken too literally. England's will...
Fierce protest was raised by the offspring of Boryna, quick to object to the bestowal of property which they regarded as rightly theirs on a girl already the object of envy and the target of scandal. The protest of Antek, son of Boryna, was intensified by the fact that he, too, loved the girl who was now robbing him not only of her body, but of his own substance...
...resignation of Richard Strauss from the directorship of the Vienna Staatsoper (TIME, Nov. 17) caused no small furor in his native town. His new Intermezzo?described as a "domestic comedy with symphonic interludes"?is the object of further talk...