Word: object
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...object was to "create a Democratic atmosphere" and to give aid to Majority Leader Scott Lucas, who badly needed it in his campaign against Republican Everett Dirksen (Lucas, no red-hot campaigner, agreed to run again only on Truman's promise of active help). By the sort of happy chance that is possible in a machine-run city, the Democrats' sho.w coincided with a civic "Jefferson Jubilee" celebrating the 150th anniversary of Jefferson's election. A nonpartisan "host committee" was organized to raise $250,000, and Democratic wards briskly funneled contributions to it. Explained "Botchy" Connors...
Dete De Rhamsey, also a native of India, is another nominee for action at bowler. Cricket bowlers throw the five-ounce ball a distance of 66 feet from the batsman. The bowler's main object is to knock four-inch strips of wood off stumps, called wickets. The batsman tries to keep the bowler from hitting the strips...
...batsman's other object is to hit the ball in such a way that he will be able to run to a second set of stumps. Every time he reaches the other wicket he scores a run. He can continue to bat until the defending team succeeds in knocking the strips, or bails, off the wickets. He is also out if a fielder catches a fly ball...
...merging all Protestant denominations into a single church, a Gallup poll indicated last week. Of Protestants polled, 50% favored merger, as opposed to only 40% in 1937. But only 28% of Protestants believed that their own church would favor merger; 45% were certain that their own church would object...
...second. Between the pulses, the bat listens for the echoes, keeping its head in constant motion as if "scanning" the obstacles around it, and "sees" by the timing and direction of the returning sound waves. The longer an echo takes to return, the farther away the object from which it has bounced...