Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 150,000 Japanese troops began the first big drive of spring 1940 against Chinese forces on the plateau in northern Hupeh and southern Honan near Hankow, bomb-gutted "Chicago of China." Object was to win a victory spectacular enough to justify final and official recognition by the Imperial Japanese Government of their Chinese puppet ruler at Nanking, multiple-turncoat Wang Ching...
...incontrovertible information" that German experts had laid out and equipped 26 camouflaged airplane landing fields along the border. Mexicans from President Cárdenas to the poorest peon knew that a fifth column was on the march south of the Rio Grande. They also knew that its immediate object was not to prepare Mexico for the advent of Adolf Hitler but to keep Uncle Sam out of Europe by keeping him busy in his own backyard...
...beyond that, Mr. Conant is contradicting himself, for no national policy is more thoroughly motivated by fear of war than the very preparedness program he supports. He admits that its object is to make us secure. But in this hope, he is misled. There is no surer way to war, and a terribly destructive one, than to arm as we are doing. In effect, we are at war with Germany already, practically committed to fight her openly in case of an Allied defeat. Already Walter Lippmann is calling for sacrifices for "defense" that are no different from those demanded...
...rainy morning last week newsmen and photographers picked their way across Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground to a wooden stand overlooking a large, wet field. Soldiers stood on guard. In the middle of the field, some 2,500 feet away, stood a gibbety-looking pole, with a baglike object suspended from it. From the pendent object oozed a steamy vapor...
...fifth of an inch thick, is so elastic that often a heavy blow from a blunt instrument only dents it "momentarily." Yet in such cases the tender brain is almost always wounded. In auto accidents, "when a head in forward motion is suddenly arrested by a massive stationary object, the greatest brain damage occurs at a point directly opposite the point of impact. ¶Even patients who are unconscious "only for a moment" should never be sent home, but should be put to bed for two or three weeks. For many cases of brain injury do not show up until...