Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...device, known as the "ring sight," looks something like a reading glass. When a gunner peers through it, he sees a set of rainbow-colored, concentric circles. Unlike rings painted on glass, these optical rings are projected beyond the disk and seem to lie directly on the object sighted (see cut). Easier to use and more accurate than most optical sights, the ring sight is especially helpful against moving targets, because the regularly spaced outer rings give a gunner a means of measuring how much he must lead the target...
Said another source: "The Holy See is accustomed to move slowly and cautiously. . . . The Church has no political motives, and time is no object, so long as true freedom of religion for all creeds in Russia and Russian-dominated areas is secured. The Vatican remains in a position of 'confident expectation...
...Objective. In Lincolnshire, England, the Chronicle ran the following advertisement : "Owner of tractor wishes to correspond with widow who owns a modern Foster, thrasher; object matrimony; send photograph of machine." Hooping Cough. In Kingston, R.I.,the Rhode Island State basketball team prepared for its game in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where smoking is permitted, by practicing with smudge pots of stale tobacco on the sidelines...
...object was to make self-sustaining landowners out of experienced and dependable tenant farmers, sharecroppers and farm laborers who had no land or equipment. The tenants would be allowed to lease farm land at from $5 to $29 an acre, and pay rent from earnings. They would buy equipment and market their produce cooperatively. Eventually, the tract would be broken up into small farms to be sold to tenants on a long-term payment plan. When directors and members had proved themselves, Government supervision would stop...
...relatives. In Britain, courts usually give the next-of-kin his way; in the U.S., courts often respect the deceased's wishes. Best a man can do is leave a note that he wants a medical school to have his body, hope that no sentimental relative will object when the time comes...