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Word: objects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blocks away from the sweating planners in the hothouse, U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery and U.S. Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas were in secret session with French Foreign Minister Bidault. Their object: to get Bidault's O.K. for raising the industrial output of the Ruhr. This week, in London, U.S. and British diplomats, meeting more publicly with the French, will try the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Trouble with Horned Toads | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Where University students stand in the current dilemma of late subsistence checks will be the object of a query this week and next by the Weld Hall Veterans Office among Law School and Graduate School veterans registering for the fall term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weld Hall Starts Inquiry on Late Veterans' Checks | 8/21/1947 | See Source »

Says Schulberg: "The cocktail party is America's favorite form of seduction.... The plot is always the same. Come up to my room and have a drink. And whether the object is physical passion or getting your client's name into the headlines, the method is standard: to weaken their resistance with let-me-pour-you-another-one, until they open their arms or their columns to you in an alcoholic daze. Of course there will always be some ladies, and members of the working press, who bounce back regularly after each seduction, holding out their empty glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fight Racket | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...main object is to avoid having any man stand in more than one line to get his various books," George Cole, manager, said yesterday. Consequently, all college text books will be available in this one section. It is also planned to route the book lines so that no man will have to stand outside in freakish New England weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Coop Remodels | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

Although he did not object to the brigades of young men who invaded his parlor to call on his daughters, he kept a lamp burning high and terminated the courting in good time by confronting the visitors with his arms full of hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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