Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet long; a carnivore, a night prowler, a fleet traveler on large but silent feet, which raise his snaky chest and belly clear of the ground. He is called "boeaja darat" and "land crocodile" by the Dutch, who have shot him as long as 12 feet. He is an object of abject terror among the island natives because of his habit of devouring his food with ferocious nocturnal noises. He is fairly easy to hunt, being deaf. He is, scientists believe, a cousin of the smaller monitor lizard (ravager of crocodile eggs) which the Smithsonian men hope...
...next to him-very agitated-on the park bench ... on the bench . . . bench. Of course, a "bench" was a symbolical term for a branch of the Government. He furtively slipped his hand under the seat, felt a piece of adhesive tape. The tape was supporting some small, cold, metallic object. He wrenched it loose, the Evening World's "magic key," and returned to the Pulitzer Building. There he explained to Douglas Fairbanks-who had been retained for the occasion to hand out the $1,000-what sheer luck it was that he had happened to be sitting on that particular...
...expense to each of the jurymen. We get $3 a day. Usually our carfares are not paid, that is, they are paid only once a week. My expenses for attending this trial have been higher than $6 a day. I don't care about that. But what I object to, and think I have a right to object to, is to have to sit in a courtroom day after day having my time taken up by idiotic objections from a lot of attorneys on points that don't amount to that! (snapping his fingers...
...What we want to find out is the facts. But the attorneys say we can't listen to them. They shout: 'Don't answer: I object,' before a question is half asked...
...seemed to our committee that the main difficulty at Harvard was to secure better adjustment between the various features which already form a part of the Harvard plan of education, and that this adjustment should be governed by the needs of the students themselves. This is the object of our report...