Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allowed the Council to set up its own procedures, invite other nations into the treaty discussions. On Sept. 11 the London Council unanimously adopted a resolution permitting all five ministers to discuss the treaties, but leaving the final decisions to the Big Three. For ten days Russia did not object. Then Molotov suddenly insisted on changing the procedure, excluding France and China, and afterward rejected every offer of compromise...
This is a picture with a moral. In giving the story of Wilson's times, Zanuck has tried to give an indirect forecast of America's future. From Wilson's tragic failure he has drawn a powerful object lesson that America would do well to heed. To say that this picture has so far changed all American political thinking would not be true; but it cannot be denied that it has been a major factor in erasing isolationism of the millions...
...Russians promptly claimed a foul. At San Francisco, they said, former U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius had promised in a letter that the U.S. would not object to Russian participation in "administration and trusteeship." Molotov at London interpreted this phrase to mean a one-power mandate for an Italian colony, not merely a share in multipower supervision. In the Russian view, the "and" was all-important...
Professor Renshaw has proved that the human eye, properly trained, can observe instantly a complicated object (such as a tank or an airplane) and impress it as a whole upon the mind. At his Navy Recognition School at Columbus, Ohio, he taught 4,000 officers from all branches of the armed services how to do this trick. As graduate instructors, they trained servicemen to tell friend from foe before the foe got too close...
...travel from the earth. . . . Things can't be observed to happen simultaneously in space. . . .") Then Stoopnagle was brought back to earth, put aboard a ship, where he observed that he was moving. (Fadiman: "Everything in the universe is moving all the time. The motion of a single object cannot be measured . . . except as it moves in relation to another. . . Relative is the key word. . . .") Said Fadiman, explaining the fourth dimension (time) : "Motion and the passage of light take time, [therefore] time is a dimension of measurement itself." Pun Pudding. These tiny pills of theory were carefully concealed...