Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference, whose first session begins in the New Lecture Hall at 4 o'clock this afternoon is sponsored by the Massachusetts Chapter of the League of Nations Association and the Summer School. The program is held with the object of promoting thought and interest in public problems among Harvard students and faculty...
Rommel Remains. This was all very well, but the object of modern desert war is to destroy the hostile armored forces, or to cripple them so badly that they must flee. That was what Rommel had done to the British before Tobruk, and the resulting vacuum had made easy his drive into Egypt. As yet neither British guns, tanks nor air force had made a dent on Rommel's Army...
Above Leningrad the Luftwaffe stepped up its attacks on Murmansk. Object: to close that port of entry for war goods from Britain and the U.S. This effort, too, was an obvious preparation for the summer offensive. The fact that it occurred at the northern terminus of the vast front, 2,000 miles from Sevastopol, did not turn wise eyes from the south. For the immutable, basic fact of Hitler's war remained. He must have oil, and the two points where he showed his greatest strength last weekevastopol and Kharkov—are on the road...
...prove this assertion is not the object of U.S. airmen. But their job is to prove it as far as concerns the enemy's armies and navies. And on the shoulders of Hap Arnold falls the major responsibility...
...environment similar to the State of Maine's but dislike the Japanese intensely and would probably be friendly to an Allied expeditionary force. The main pastime of this race seems to be in getting inebriated on the local brands of beer and wine, and one of the most prized objects in this collection is a beard cleaner which the Ainu use to brush their beards free of liquor. Another object prized by the Peabody is the mummified body of King Shabataka, who is mentioned in the Bible in chapter 17 of the 2nd Book of Kings. On the same floor...