Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are two ways of attacking Shakespeare: firstly, the intellectual point of view of the student; and secondly, the showman's point of view. The latter looks at the production as simply a play, written by a modern playwright. His object is to bring out the drama, make the audience understand the action, impress them...
Great speculation has been going on during the last few days as to the object of the dashes of white paint which have appeared along the curbing in the Yard...
...metropolis. We say "almost exclusively" because of one section which is called "the Valley" and deserves the name for social as well as geographical considerations. Here live the negro families, as well as the nouveaux arrives: Italians, Poles, Greeks: forming an untouchable world apart but a convenient object for the charitable inclinations of the towns-women...
...point at issue was not the constitutionality of the Act as a whole but that of its registration provisions. Electric Bond & Share, argued Attorney Jackson, was on an illegal spot. It could not call the constitutionality of the Act in question until it should be in a position to object to SEC's procedure. He prayed the Court either to order registration or to enjoin Bond & Share from interstate business...
...Buchman, who in his more infested moments, has asked for "a supernatural network over five wires," and for "a spiritual radiophone in every home," puts forward as the central object of the movement God-control of every person's every act. God-control is acquired by the faithful as a result of frequent "quiet times" when uninterrupted meditation produces God's answer to any troublesome problem. To a certain extent this seems to be the old faith in the natural man, a reliance on the efficacy of the still, small voice of conscience...