Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unsavory mistress of Michel, drunken leader of drunks. The curtain rises upon a chapel lit by a rose window and the interior of a hovel. Within the chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when Michel enters. This brutal lover suggests stealing the cross from dead Agnes' breast. To prevent such blasphemy, Toinette rings the convent bell. Michel stops her and she cries out, "I'm done for." Contrast this with...
...Mayas were a city dwelling people and the peninsula of Yucatan was once densely populated. Many great cities are known to have existed. In them impressive architecture, painting and sculpture, together with inscriptions and writings dealing with scientific work, have been found. Dr. Spinden reports that the primary object of this expedition is to obtain accurate maps and photographs of the ruins as they now exist. The field of exploration is as yet so little known that no excavation can even be attempted...
HILDA YOUNT ERTEL Williamsport, Pa. TIME regrets that the use of "it" should injure the feelings of a parent. Webster's International Dictionary seems to furnish plenty of authority when it says: "It is now used only of an inanimate object or of an animate one in which sex is disregarded...
...Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal: "The object of a sport should be to develop physically the greatest possible number of men. Certainly, the modern football game, with its specialization and segregation of the players, does not fill the bill...
...trend of educational progress undoubtedly is toward increasing what President Lowell has called "interest in and respect for the intellectual life." In so far as this object is achieved in the future, the gravest of university problems will disappear, and it is with as the mainly on its accomplishment that all improvements in educational machinery must be made...