Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present attacks on the Court are occasioned by its declaration against a minimum wage law. And, incidentally, radicals and Mr. Hearst object to Mr. Taft's $10,000 annuity from steel bonds...
...private collectors. Modern work or a copy of the ancient piece may be more interesting or more beautiful than the authentic ancient one, and if the private collector wants such pieces it is his privilege. I may like to wear my hat backward; that is my privilege. What I object to is that future American artists should have put before them false representations of our art. The museum is sacred." As for the man who committed the supposed frauds: " That man would put arms on the Venus de Milo or. a head on the Samothrace Statue of Victory...
Paresis, or general paralysis of the insane, is a hitherto incurable brain disease caused by the penetration of Spirochaeta pallida, the germ of syphilis, to the higher nerve centers, and has been the object of attack by many neurologists without marked success (TIME, April 28). Malaria germs have recently been used to combat it. Since 1919, 42 advanced cases were treated with tryparsamide, 21 of which are now discharged and restored to useful work, and four more have shown great improvement. Whether the cures are permanent remains to be seen...
...object of this flattery, to misquote one of his speeches, was born with a funnel in his mouth. A deplorable circumstance which his father had in vain tried to remedy. And then came the storm which blew Henry out to the Pacific coast, drinking as he went. Of course he fell in love with the "whitest girl in the world", and, taking her heart in his hand, he dragged her after him to the dregs of a Chinese city--6, 560 miles! There "midst horrid shapes, and shrieks and sights unholy" the battle for purity took place a veritable wrestling...
...absolute perfection in its construction; it does, however, stand for honesty, accuracy and fair dealing and would not even for the success of that which it deemed worthy deviate from that established policy and purpose so definitely indicated by its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, when she said, ' The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.' While those identified with The Christian Science Monitor are not indifferent to its success, I can say?to once again quote Mrs. Eddy ?that they ' would much rather fail of success than attain it by reproachable means...