Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intrepid band of ladies, full of git & gumption, descended on Seneca Falls, N.Y., to declare a rebellion against "the repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman." These injuries, they said, had as their direct object the establishment of an "absolute tyranny" over woman...
...pressed hard on red-faced, 78-year-old Labor Lord Addison to agree to a delay and a conference. His object: to reform the House of Lords the Tory way. A conference would probably result in a compromise: cutting the present membership by more than half, allowing hereditary peers to elect parliamentary representatives from their own ranks (as Scottish peers do), balancing the reduced hereditary element by creating more Laborite peers...
What did private industry think about the bill? In general, rubber men did not object too much. At current production and prices, the industry would easily use up the minimum tonnage. Opinions may change if the price of natural rubber, now around 22? a pound, falls below the price of "American-made...
...influence the internal politics of the European nations involved. Finally, it must be implemented as much as possible through the United Nations. This program has deliberately been exempted from rigorous technicalities. The Committee, again displaying sanity did not feel itself qualified to present Congress with a detailed bill. The object is simply to publicize vehemently and cogently the broad aims the Committee feels should be inherent in the Marshall Plan...
...operation itself is a relatively minor event. Some donors have even admitted that they rather enjoyed it. Student entertainment, of course, isn't the prime object of the undertaking. But since at worst it is painless and quick, all the needling of the student body should be left to the doctors and not to the overworked crew of PBH campaigners...