Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...step has as its object the hope of incorporating Freshman activities more closely in the scheme of all College affairs, to attain an essential unity of all classes which is felt to be especially necessary in these times...
...farmer buys -food, clothing, furnishings, seed, feed, machinery, fertilizer. The figures are averaged by States, then nationally, then compared with figures that show what farmers got for their produce and paid out for necessities between Aug. 1, 1909 and July 31, 1914, a period of lush agricultural prosperity. The object of parity: to give farmers the same purchasing power now that they had in that period. The reason: when the New Deal started in 1933 to try to get fair prices for farmers, a yardstick of "fairness" was needed and lobbyists picked a favorable yardstick...
...high command last week took charge. While one of WPB's new vice chairmen, Ferdinand Eberstadt, set out to make sense out of the distribution of materials the other new vice chairman, General Electric's Charles Edward Wilson, called the first of the biweekly meetings, whose object is to substitute cooperation for acrimony in the relations between WPB and the departments whose job it is to supply...
Because the rods are on the periphery of the retina, the best way to see an object at night is not to look directly at it but at a point near it. The catch in this off-center technique is that it handicaps a person in judging his distance from an object; pedestrians sometimes walk smack into a truck at the curb because they suppose that the dark mass they see is a building across the street. Dr. Miles offers a tip on how to judge distance at night: the nearer an object is, the fuzzier its outlines are; move...
...Object. Despite their grueling effort, the tank men cared curiously little whether they held the pass when the sun slanted down and washed the plain in yellow and gold. For them the real object of their maneuvers was to get an early crack at Rommel's tankers. From the first day they arrived at the railroad siding near the Desert Training Center (and half of many companies keeled over from heat prostration) to the day last week at the pass, to Needles, these men had grown tough and disciplined. They had fought over an area bigger than Vermont, Connecticut...