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Word: objects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many object to the fishtail on other grounds than legal ones. The breast-stroke was probably the first stroke over used, and it has been retained as a racing event largely because of sentiment over its historical background. Since Mann's proposal would make the classic breast-stroke unrecognizable and more and more like the crawl, these dissenters fool that the breast-stroke should be retained as it is or else completely abandoned in favor of the crawl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ulen for New Breaststroke Kick Only as Special Event | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...opened the Western Desert campaign against the Axis in November. In the most hair-raising story of World War II it was revealed last week that, be fore the attack started, General Auchinleck sent a force of Britain's shock Commandos 200 miles behind the Axis lines. Their object: to destroy the enemy's leadership, in particular Nazi General Erwin Rommel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Keyes v. Rommel | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Until a month ago the attacks on Russia and China were direct. Then Germany began trying to stabilize its Russian front and Japan turned from China to attack the Philippines and Singapore. Object: to effect a vast pincer movement aimed at choking the only adequate supply lines to Russia and China, the Persian Gulf route and the Burma Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Campaign in the Balance | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Japan takes Singapore and if Germany successfully makes the logical move against Suez and the Near East, that object will be all but accomplished. The pincers will close on Russia and China. Without supply they will almost inevitably succumb. The pincers will then be reversed to close in on Britain and the U.S. -both cut off by then from their war supplies of tin and rubber. The pincers would close first on the outposts of the Western Hemisphere (Britain and Australia), next on America itself. The Battle of the Hemispheres would be joined, with the U.S. on the short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Campaign in the Balance | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...commentators were still on their own, but were asked, both by the Government and by the National Association of Broadcasters, to use care in speculation. Radio reporters, e.g., in Washington, were expected to get Army and Navy permission before voicing any information which they thought Army or Navy might object...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Censorship | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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