Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the week Secretary Ickes made the following additional news: ¶ To help dispose of the growing supply of Government rum made by the Virgin Islands Co.. he announced that a specialist of his department was at work devising a cocktail recipe. Object was to stimulate sale of Virgin Island rum when it comes of potable age in 1940. ¶Since 12,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space in 101 Government buildings plus 2,500,000 sq. ft. in 103 rented buildings is no longer adequate for the growing horde of New Dealers in Washington, Secretary Ickes...
...bewhiskered old Radical Socialist Deputy Henri Guernut, considered a great specialist in French political dirt because he was Chairman of the Chamber's Stavisky Committee. Accusingly last week Old Guernut shouted across the Chamber at Premier Pierre Laval: "The plotting of the Fascist Leagues is undeniable! Their object is to substitute for the Republic a Fascist regime. They themselves avow it and Colonel François de La Rocque announces as imminent a seizure of power by his Croix de Feu. Not one of the men who have been brought before the highest court of the land, during...
Nowhere in or out of the Bible is there to be found a better description of the Cup of the Last Supper. For a thousand years that drinking vessel has been the object of pious search, the subject of revered romance, throughout the Christian world. Quietly on view in the Brooklyn Museum last week went a great egg-shaped goblet which hundreds of devout folk believe to be the Holy Grail itself. Though in all historical accuracy it probably is no such thing, it is certainly one of the oldest pieces of Christian art extant...
...History under the present system is falling short of its mark, it is not because the division is doing too little, but rather because it is attempting too much. The department has taken the dogma, perhaps from President Lowell, that concentration in a particular field has as its object a veneer of knowledge covering the entire expanse of the chosen subject. As is inevitable in such a vaulting and all-inclusive attempt, the concentrator, having only his Sophomore and Junior years in which to study for his divisionals, skims over the surface from the dawn of history to the present...
PROFESSOR SPALDING fills a long-felt need in his historical review of the men and events connected with music at Harvard. The object of his book, as set forth on the jacket, "is to set before the students and alumni of Harvard and also before those who may be interested in the development of music in America, the significant part which Harvard played in this progress...