Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief moment it looked as if Britain had chosen retaliation and prestige. London suggested that the Vatican be lighted so that R.A.F. bombs would not hit the area. Since Mussolini would object strenuously if Vatican lights acted as beacons, the Vatican remained dark...
...charges followed and a second convulsion. By that time the Greer was beginning to turn. Minutes later she was back over the spot and more explosions shook the sea. For several hours the Greer quartered that sector of the sea releasing charges at the slightest suspicion of any underwater object...
...Portland Summer Symphony became the first concert orchestra to hire Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy as guest artists. Object: to wipe out a $1,500 deficit. (Failed by $500, because of bad weather.) McCarthy gagged between numbers, did not conduct the orchestra. Said Conductor Paul LeMay, who did: "I wouldn't do it again...
Last week the Navy stepped up its recruiting goal to 13,000 men per month for the rest of this year, 15,000 per month in 1942. Object: to have 369,000 enlisted men in two-ocean service by next June...
...small-town teachers, who use more individual ingenuity in their teaching than those in big cities where curriculums are fixed, the Instructor each month brings them a famous painting in color, lessons for "seatwork," songs, plays, drawings, tests, suggestions for trips, lessons in manners (see cut). Its avowed object is to make teaching...