Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object of the plan," stated Professor Bock, "would be to help a man find an occupation for which he is fitted and, what is more important, one in which he is interested. At present the bulk of the students enter professions other than law, medicine, and teaching. Those fellows who are unhappy in vocations for which they are ill-fitted would be aided immeasurably by the plan...
...starter" card turned up. Then the players play out their hands-each in turn laying a card face up on his own side of the table, calling out the number of pips on each card as it is played and adding them to those of the previous cards. Object: to make exactly 31 (which counts two points)-or, before 31 is reached, to make Pairs (two points). Triplets (six points), Fours (twelve points), Runs or Sequences (a point for each card), Fifteens (two points). After the eight cards have been laid down, with points pegged as made, each player reckons...
...casual kibitzer, cribbage is as baffling as the nebular hypothesis. Even though one may know that its main object is to form various counting combinations (like Pairs, Runs, Fifteens) and register them with wooden pegs until someone gets 61 (or 121 in a double round), one can listen to its time-honored lingo for hours without catching...
...Paso, Texas, the Herald-Post carried under "Situations Male": RESTLESS, UNENERGETIC, young, unreliable man DON'T NEED but will accept good position. Don't like to work or have responsibilities but needs spending money for pleasure and hobbies. Job with long future no object. Can do anything half and will assume boss' responsibilities first week. High salary and short hours preferred. Have several years of poor sales and office experience, no car but should own one in 10 days under right proposition. If you have good opening call E 1360-J for appointment, after...
College officers, frightened by visions of Ann the Oomphy posing for photographers on John Harvard's lap, object to the proposed premiere here on the grounds that it would expose Harvard to a blast of undignified publicity and are applying pressure from all sides to head Warner Brothers...