Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some sharp object had ripped through an aviator from the spine nearly to the navel. He was near death when he arrived at the hospital 20 minutes later. In two hours, surgeons gave him twelve units of plasma and ten pints of blood. Two months later the captain saw him in a West Coast hospital and he "looked pretty good...
...Some pedants who have forgotten their Bible lessons in Sunday school object to night starvation, iceman, sex appeal . . . without realizing that they follow such impressive leadership as the Knight Templar, Gladstone bag . . . Lady Mother. ... What is specially characteristic of Anglo-American is the large and growing group of words which can be verbs, nouns or adjectives. . . ." Water is a good example...
...Anglo-American has its own peculiar roundabout method of interrogation. We no longer say: sayest thou? The modern form of the question is: do you say? . . . In a few years no one will object to did he ought...
...come. We will have "imperialism" of a sort, for small and backward nations need capital that is owned by the big fellows. The status quo ante will be restored in many instances, simply because a war-weary world will follow the lines of least resistance. China, for example, may object to Britain's presence in Singapore. Yet the fact that China has no navy demands the presence of Western naval power in the Far East...
...ground-level detector came when experimenters noticed that a ship moving between a transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument had three main elements: 1) a short-wave sender-receiver which could bounce back a beam, through clouds, smoke or rain, from a small object (e.g., a plane or ship) as much as 130 mi. away, 2) a vane to determine the object's direction, 3) sensitive electronic tubes to measure the object's distance by timing the echoed beam, which travels with the speed of light - 186,000 mi. a second...