Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual; he is ten million men. Ivan, the Russian soldier, the first who could stop Adolf Hitler, the immovable object to what the world thought was an irresistible force...
...action on the cumbrous machinery of Whitehall. . . . One reason suggested for my dismissal was that I was too old (69) to lead shock troops, but the command of such a force does not necessarily mean leading it into action. This is a young man's war and my object was to give youth its chance...
...Questions?, familiarly known as "The Brains Trust," brings together as regulars an old sea dog, a fluent philosopher and a famed scientist-all three bossed by a London wit. Spontaneous and unrehearsed, its object is not to stump the experts but to draw them out. BBC now receives more than 2,000 questions a week, of which the likeliest dozen or so are popped to the Brains Trust during its three-quarters of an hour (5:15 to 6 p.m. Sundays...
...Only in "Memorare" incidentally, except for the advertisements, is there any reference to the war. Mr. Thompson also contributes the only characteristically youthful note to the issue in his arrogant review of "What Are Years" by Marianne Moore, in which he pours bitter scorn, inappropriate and incommensurate for its object, upon Miss Moore for producing the kind of poetry she has been producing for the past twenty years, and upon T. S. Eliot for liking it. Robert Gorham Davis, Briggs-Copeland Faculty Instructor in English Composition...
...trade as affecting this nation; 2) history of the United States and the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine; 3) the Constitution and the background of man's struggle for liberty (this phase will give the historical background of democracy, with particular emphasis on the growth of constitutional government. Object: to bring home the personal meaning of the guarantees of the Constitution and a soldier's responsibility toward the maintenance of that bulwark of free men.); 4) contrasting political systems: a discussion on Nazi, Fascist and Communist political states in contrast to the American way; 5) the present world...