Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reverend Arlan Baillie of Boston criticized General McNair's statement in regard to the proper fighting spirit [TIME, Nov. 23: "We must lust for battle; our object in life must be to kill; we must scheme and plan night and day to kill."]. Reverend Baillie stated that such an attitude was not proper for a leader of fighting men, and wrote to President Roosevelt asking for McNair's removal...
...extension of the drive to relieve Stalingrad. But as the Russian thrust widened, it also became an effort to destroy the Germans' entire system of communications and supply in the Ukraine, to endanger Axis forces both in the Don-Volga area and in the Caucasus. The great object of the Red Army's winter strategy was now clear: to slice up the Germans' winter lines, keep the Wehrmacht on the defensive from Rzhev to the Caucasus...
...Franklin Roosevelt probably is the target of more adverse criticism and the object of more praise than any other woman in American history," concluded Pollster George Gallup after sampling national opinion on the First Lady. Some three out of five people questioned approved of something about her: "Her ability and courage to speak out what she believes." About two out of five expressed some disapproval: "Why, the way she acts, you'd think the people elected her President...
...photographic film, then the reds will be in focus deeper in the film. This is well known under the name of chromatic aberration. Birch-Field's novel realization is that every film thus contains a pattern of silver atoms which, in effect, registers the original colors of the object photographed...
President Morley implied that some Haverford Quakers will object, but that many will console themselves with the fact that meteorologists are noncombatants, even though they may put the final okay on plans for bombing raids...