Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traveled past the Course and wondered about the great big tall telephone pole way up in the air with the dangling ropes-- that is the treat. It is just enough to keep everyone happy. Beneath these dangling ropes is a pit, twelve feet across and five feet deep. The object is to spring the forty yards between obstacles, jump six feet, grab the rope and swing across the chasm to the other side. Another spring of forty feet, another hurdle and then the dessert, (boy, what a meal.) Everyone likes a large, sweet, mouth-watering dessert. The Obstacle Course provides...
...Etonian, veteran of the First Dragoon Guards and the Northumberland Hussar Yeomanry, and Deputy Speaker since 1938. Smart aleck Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, a maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish . . . Nonsense . . . Shame" greeted his protest; and Laborite Will Thorne, the House's oldest member (86), blew two blasts on a football referee's whistle to express his disapproval even...
...Women's Committee of this organization, headed by Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger, has furnished 16 day rooms and two hostess house living rooms at Fort Devens and Camp Edwards, a service which has been the object of much praise on the part of the camp officials. All the furniture used in this project was secured wholly through the efforts of the committee itself...
...months before he died he left his testament to aviation. Chosen to deliver the Wright Brothers Lecture before the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, Pilot Allen sat himself down to a codification of test-pilot procedure. Object: to standardize testing, make it result in the same sound, understandable conclusions no matter what pilot is at the controls. The result: a test pilot's bible. Said Edward Pearson Warner of CAB, onetime professor in M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautical Engineering: "More than anybody else, Eddie has made it possible for the performance of aircraft to be determined accurately...
Ruml will discuss his revolutionary new tax-collecting method, object of one of Washington's stormiest controversies. Head of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, and treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co., he is an acknowledged expert in economics and business...