Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...melancholy object to those who walk through the Yard or along the riverbank when they see hundreds of freshman, seraway and suffering from malnutrition, importuning every passerby for a sausage. These students, istead of being able to spend 16 to 18 hours a day on their work, are forced to employ all of their time in roaming Cambridge to beg for a pittance of flesh. Countries ago, in 1729, a similar food shortage gripped Ireland, and Joha than Swift offered a plausible and efficient solution. Unfortunately, civilization was not sufficiently advanced to recognize the wisdom of his plan...
Lacrosse is a fluid game, resembling hockey played on a field 110 yards long and 60 to 70 yards wide. The object of the game, according to the august words of the Official Rules, is "to score by causing the ball to enter the opponent's goal." For this purpose the lacrosse player is given a crosse made of four to six feet of wood topped by a rawhide net in which the ball is caught and carried around the field. The ball can be kicked but not touched by the hands...
...object of the experiment is to see whether a person's "belief" affects his extra-sensory ability. In tests conducted at the Harvard Psychological Clinic several years ago, the sheep, or believers, have shown telepathic ability repeatedly in scientific tests, so that the experimenters considered the results significant proof that this power exists. The goats, on the other hand, have shown consistently telepathic aptitude...
...Object Lesson. In Montreal, Night Watchman Emmanuel Dame explained to police how three robbers had been able to take him by surprise: he had been absorbed in a crime magazine...
Natural Reservoirs. The object of the new dams on the headwaters is to even out the flow, holding water in reservoirs during the flood season, and letting it out when needed. Luckily for Egypt, the reservoirs are already half built. On the main tributaries, the Blue and White Niles, there are big lakes that need only dams at their outlets to turn them into ideal storage basins...