Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's tercentenary was an occasion for pride in the accomplishments of a great center of learning. Heidelberg's anniversary celebration was a mockery of learning and an object lesson in oppression...
...nation's honor can only be wrested from it and it can not be the object of barter. But with this declaration I wish to announce that the era of so-called Surprises has been concluded. As a State with equal rights, Germany with the fullest loyalty will henceforth do her share in settling European problems and in solving such problems as may concern not only ourselves but other nations." Only spectators who know both Germany and Hitler could fully appreciate the fervor of this declaration by Der Führer or the fervor of the response evoked...
...doubt, will snort at the idea, but since it has never had a trial it deserves one. Incidentally, it should be noted that Mr. Littauer is one of those private benefactors whom it has been the policy of the New Deal to discourage and that the occasion and object of his munificence is the New Deal itself. Rather a handsome return for disfavors. --New York Herald Tribune...
...confession tended to corroborate another's. The chief prisoners, as usual, said they preferred not to be defended by the only lawyers obtainable in Russia, the State's lawyers, and these were busy only with the troubles of small fry. In a general way the object of Prosecutor Vishinsky was to get 17 men condemned to Death by proving that they had conspired against the Soviet Union and to assassinate Dictator Joseph Stalin with Leon Trotsky of Mexico City (TIME, Jan. 25 et ante), who had written great quantities of letters in the hatching of this conspiracy...
...Melvin Purvis, were the first non-escapist parlor sports since just after the turn of the Century when Bunco and Pit, based on Chicago's wheat trading, were highly fashionable. Bulls & Bears, played on a parcheesi-like board, concerns stock purchases, pools, dividends and taxes. The object is to acquire corners on as many stocks as possible, force other players into bankruptcy. Dice determine stock prices...