Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of American university faculties who are sincerely opposed to the policies of our government with respect to foreign relations and national preparedness. There are some who believe that the totalitarian countries will leave us alone if we leave them alone. There are others who are ardent pacifists and object to the use of force even for the purpose of defending civilization against barbarism. We of the Harvard Group are convinced that these men are grievously mistaken in thinking that the freedom which they and we cherish can be preserved except by strengthening our own armed forces and by giving...
...shell at last," gleefully confided one British officer. But not yet was desert-wise Graziani a tortoise floundering in the shifting sands. He waited, strengthened his strung-out garrisons, brought up more water, dug new wells to replace those salted by the British in retiring. His object was to prepare Sidi Barráni as a base for his next thrust forward. As he did so, the British cracked at his vulnerable line of communication...
Christian crosses spring from Buddhist lotus-flower bases at Dr. Karl Ludwig Reichelt's red-roofed Tao Fong Shan mission high above lovely Shatin Valley near Hong Kong. That fusion of symbols suits the earnest, persuasive Norwegian missionary. His object is to teach Buddhist monks Christianity in a familiar setting, make them converts to take Christianity to millions of other Buddhists. The Nazi Blitzkrieg last spring cut off funds from Norway and Denmark which have long financed Missionary Reichelt. But his work will go on. U. S. Lutherans have rallied to his support, as they have to 37 other...
...five Business School dining halls use student waiters and bus boys exclusively. The student waiters do their job efficiently and "many of them prefer it to other kinds of work." Dean Harris said. "The other students don't object to student waiting the slightest...
...official announcement, broadcast from Vichy over Germany's Transocean wireless, said that the six warships were bound for Dakar, on the coast of French West Africa. Later Vichy announced their arrival at Dakar. What was their object? Did they intend to put down the swing to De Gaulle in French Equatorial Africa? Whatever they were up to, the British must have known or the French would not have passed unchallenged. And whatever it was, the British must have felt safer with the French ships out of the Mediterranean, where they might have been seized by the Axis...