Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor: But what I object to most strenuously is that all week long the H.A.A. announced that the field was under a tarpaulin day and night. It almost looks like somebody tried to fool Brown and take advantage of the powerful Harvard line. Or were you trying to make sure that the Stadium grass had enough water all week...
...object of Steel's work will be to assist students in finding what they are best fitted to do. It will not be a jobfinding service, although it will give out specific information on businesses and the opportunities in them...
Last week Operator Eaton took time out from politics to try to turn a dollar or two. Object of his attention was the San Antonio subsidiary of the ill-fated United Light & Power system, which Eaton once controlled. Biggest single interest in United now is the Mellon family's Koppers Co., which owns 28.4% of the Class B voting stock (which would be practically wiped out in United's proposed recapitalization...
Philanthropist Rockefeller planned his charities as carefully as he planned his trust. His purpose was threefold: 1) to start object lessons in charity; 2) to start programs for others to carry on; 3) to start others giving by giving himself. But he was against setting up any charitable foundation "in perpetuity." Said Rockefeller: "Perpetuity is a pretty long time." With age John D. Sr. came to depend more & more on John D. Jr. to run his empire. He thought the young man did his job very well. But he ruthlessly curbed any tendency to spendthriftness...
Russia's other Balkan object is age-old: an exit from the Black Sea. Russia's only other outlets to the world are through Vladivostok, the Baltic and the Arctic Ocean. The U. S. would be in a similar position if its only outlets to the world were through Alaska, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and the mouth of the Mississippi, which was held by a foreign power (the Turks). Since the 18th Century the Russians have hankered to possess the Bosporus and Dardanelles. When they tried to get them in 1854 the British, the French and later the Italians...