Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy had indeed decided to fix up the Wyoming, mainly by mounting more anti-aircraft guns on her and increasing the gun crews' protection against air attack. But the immediate object was only to make the Wyoming a better training ship. A more significant sign of the Navy's need and worry was work under way at Norfolk on three other old battlewagons: New York, Texas, Arkansas. The 14-inch guns on the New York and Texas, the 12-inch guns on the Arkansas cannot fire more than 20,000 yards, with this insufficient range would be helpless...
...primary object of this new system is to develop the individual student's work in a pyramid, with a strong foundation of the general field of English literature, and an intricate structure pointing to the particular point in which he is interested. In the past a survey knowledge was sought, with only the honor thesis affording any opportunity for individual expression...
...less chance of the United States getting into war, if we do all we can now to support the nations defending themselves against attack by the Axis than if we acquiesce in their defeat, submit tamely to an Axis victory, and wait our turn to be the object of attack. . . ." Thus Franklin Roosevelt said that...
Hitler and his Party are not concerned to bring about juster frontiers in Europe between free peoples or a fairer distribution of colonial territories between the leading nations of the world. Their object is to subjugate others so that they and their resources can be organized on totalitarian lines for the benefit of the German military State. Hitlerism cannot stop and become peaceful. Nazi Germany is organized for war and totalitarian economics and for nothing else. Its economic system, like everything else, is built on fraud. War and preparation for war are its only real remedy for unemployment...
...politically impossible." If the course were not practically pure anti-Nazi propaganda, it would be attacked by hordes of well-meaning patriots, and very likely persecuted out of existence, even though in some future day the Germany of Adolph Hitler will probably be a far more important object of study than the Vichy government or occupied France. Thus does Harvard keep abreast of the latest fashions in scholarship and patriotic sentiment...