Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cleaning House. Though their defeat was limited, the sensitive Russians characteristically prepared to launch a diplomatic counteroffensive. Poland, Russia's stooge, served notice that she would bring before the Security Council a charge that the Franco regime in Spain was a threat to world peace. Russia might also object to U.S. troops in China and Iceland...
...Orleans businessmen, with eyes cocked toward Latin America, have already plunked down $200,000 to buy two adjoining buildings in the business district, pledged themselves to plunk down $750,000 more to remodel them into a slick, air-conditioned home for a new International Trade Mart. Object: a year-round display of Mississippi Valley products...
This war-stimulated phenomenon of forums was crystallized just a year ago when the Harvard Forum was founded with the specific function of stimulating student opinion. At the time of its inception it was to be a "wartime organization with peacetime objectives," and according to the Forum's president, this object has almost been fulfilled...
According to an information pamphlet issued by the Counsellor, "Requirements for admission have been made more elastic, not to relax standards, but to clear away unnecessary red tape which might work against men who have been fighting instead of studying." The object of this action, said the bulletin, is the University determination to keep education in Cambridge open to qualified men on the most flexible basis possible and to provide--to all veterans who apply disinterested and purposeful advice...
Renewal of the Eli crew represents the overcoming of serious war-time obstacles, including transportation difficulties imposed by the distance of the Thames from the Yale campus. The Blue varsity was organized at this late season date with the single object of meeting their traditional rivals from Cambridge...