Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only real English dish, the people's food in the real sense of the word, is sweetmeats. Everyone in England, old or young, male or female, eats sweets. There are almost as many sweet shops as tobacconists. Sweetstuffs spoil the appetite, which is their principal object; whoever believes they taste good, like German sweets, is making a mistake. English sweets taste solely like sugar or chocolate. They can drug gnawing hunger and at the same time spoil the teeth (about 50% of the people over 40 years of age in England have false teeth...
...Object of Roosevelt Raceway, like the Monza course, is to combine the advantages of road-racing (tests for automobile motors, excitement for spectators) with the advantages of track-racing (high speed, visibility for crowds). Roosevelt Raceway's four-mile track has a three-quarter mile straightaway thanked by grandstands. The other three and a quarter miles, lying just beyond the straightaway, are coiled into three major loops, shaped like the profile of a Parker House roll. The track winds through 16 turns all within clear view of the grandstand crowd. Most elaborate plant of its kind in the world...
...Strong objection to cremation on religious grounds comes from Orthodox Jews. The Roman Catholic Church also objects to cremation. Protestant denominations generally do not object. The Unitarian Church, however, is the only one which positively approves. Reads its new service book: "The growing practice of cremation is to be commended, especially in large cities. Not infrequently cremation takes place in advance of the funeral service. This usage helps to minimize the physical aspect of death and to centre the attention upon the spiritual message of the service." Dr. Yon Ogden Vogt of Chicago's First Unitarian Church, which sells...
...usual, there will be one trip during the season, while the immediate object of the leaders is to exceed last year's record of more than 200 letters...
Dick Harlow has divided his squad into two rival camps for this contest, one coached by Wes Fesler and Skip Stahley; the other by Rae Crowther and Howie O'Dell. These squads were divided with the object of making a close game, not as A and B groups...