Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object to the so-called cable-car picture [TIME, Feb. 10]. The artist has fettered this poor thing with an overhead trolley wire and trolley pole. There is even a hook-shaped device on the front of this hermaphrodite for holding the trolley pole when not in use. . . . D. H. LEHMER Berkeley, Calif...
...Advertising Council, Inc., a peacetime extension of an effective wartime agency, began a nation-wide campaign recently in which TIME is vitally interested (see p. 115). The object of the campaign is to acquaint every individual American with the critical importance to him of world trade & world travel...
...back of Sir Robert's head: a "radar telescope" which will magnify on its scope any object of interest within the range of the beam. The observer at night or in fog can "tune in" a distant speck for better examination...
...sculptor comes to Springfield to take plaster impressions of Lincoln's hands. He suggests that something be held while the cast is being made. Lincoln vanishes into a woodshed, is heard sawing away, reappears with a carefully trimmed piece of broomstick. The sculptor protests that any old object would have served. "Oh, well," says Lincoln, "I thought I would like to have it nice...
...more likely object of close scrutiny might rather be sports that openly accept the label of professional. Recent headlines have shown the dangers which are so tempting to their employees, with sordid tales of attempted bribery in the ranks of professional football and boxing following close upon each other's heels. A gambling industry of such size and resources as the one with which we seem to be saddled makes many more such attempts at insuring some desired victory inevitable, and some of them are quite likely to succeed without being detected...