Search Details

Word: objectivity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...conflict between Japan's and China's armies has been the collision of a resistible force with a movable object. The battlefronts have been extremely elastic. Last week a Chinese military spokesman coined a new phrase for China's war plan: "rubber-band tactics"-let the Japanese stretch their various lines of advance until they are either snapped back or bound around. Last week the bands were being stretched and relaxed at the following points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Rubber-Band Tactics | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Object of this outburst, the like of which had not been seen in the Yard for many a year, was Harvard's tutoring schools. It was not the first attack on them.* But it was by all odds the noisiest and most determined. First step in the Crimson'?, campaign was to announce that it would no longer accept tutoring-school advertising. Loss to the Crimson: $2,000 a year. The Crimson proceeded to make sensational charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Intellectual Brothels | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...American Medical Association and anti-Tucker Congressmen (who last week defeated the bill) object to the Balm of Gilead. Asthma is a disease which may be due to any one of a score of causes. No one "specific" can relieve the disease, says A. M. A., and no "long-distance treatment" can diagnose conditions which require the personal attention of a physician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Balm of Gilead | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...adventures of Peter Strake and girls in an abortive Putsch, drips conversational tinsel like a Christmas tree, is neither standard Ross nor Rosten. As one character says: "It's like a cross between Graustark and the Arabian Nights, written by E. Phillips Oppenheim." Authors McCutcheon, Scheherazade, Oppenheim might object, but to most readers Dateline: Europe will seem like a versatile slip which can do Author Rosten no harm, if not repeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tinsel | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Many Object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Thirds of Yardlings Taking History I Use Reviews or Notes | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Next