Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain. In his initial report, Secretary General Trygve Lie bluntly said he hoped that U.N. would "find ways and means by which liberty . . . may be restored in Spain." The Russians were obviously pleased, and no other important delegation hurried to object. Argentina's Jose Arce obliquely defended Franco by urging caution against "any downfall in the old-established human societies and centers of culture...
...have traveled considerably over this broad land of ours and everywhere--except here--a milk shake is a milk shake. I object to this up-grading to a fancy status denoted as "FRAPPE," which (including the French name) costs more than the original product. --G. W. S., Nieman...
...object of proper policy is at all times to elevate the standards of education. Does the presence of Radcliffe in the Yard cause the Harvardian to raise his sights, or to lower them...
...busy pondering what he feels is one of the most serious single problems of the day: the breakdown of the family. An increasing divorce rate and decreasing birth rate point to a breakdown in the family system. "Juvenal saw this happening," says Zimmerman, "when he wrote that the object of Roman men of the time was to make their neighbors' bedsprings creak." Seeing similar signs of breakdown today, the professor feels that the larger problem can be attacked best through an attempt to shore up the foundation of the family system upon which our society is based. Specifically, he proposes...
...object of the Authors' Authority is to provide an organization which can and will take the trouble to protect the writer's property, a job which the writer himself has neither the time, the ability, nor the power to do. This Authority would copyright everything an author wrote and hold it in the author's name. The writer would sell nothing: he would lease rights--such as movie rights for only one movie, or serial rights for only one publication--but he would retain all future controls. In other words, his property would remain his own for the first time...