Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well may. Stanford now object to being called "Cornell of the West." No doddard, Stanford continues to grow and to be talked of; has not outlived its vigor...
Chairman Legge painstakingly explained that his Board's object was to set up for each commodity a co-operative which, "as it gains financial strength and experience, can and will become entirely independent of the Government." He defended the Board's loan policy on wheat and its open-market operations "to check unnecessary depression of prices." He insisted the Board's pit dealings had "averted a crisis more serious than the crash of the speculative stock market...
...furies by a pungent critique* of Ireland's secret and romantic brotherhoods as they exist today. A tough old patriot himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object the freedom of Ireland. There was good reason, too, for their being secret. "All small nationalties submerged in great empires tend to develop a subterranean political life. It is impossible to fight great battles openly, and the very character of their ideals makes open propaganda difficult. Whatever may be said...
...Graaff, onetime Dutch Minister to the U. S., never got over wincing at "dear little." Addressing the International Law Association at Manhattan in 1924 he said with visible emotion: ". . . While I appreciate the sympathy, I take exception to the diminutive, and most strongly object to the 'dear.' At least as far as international law is concerned, I think that my country deserves a better name than 'dear little Holland.' " The area of the Netherlands is 13,208 sq. mi. (about three times the size of Connecticut). Its population: 7,625,938. The Dutch Kingdom...
...Backgammon is played upon a board of checkerboard size, with 15 draughtsmen for each of the two players, and a pair of dice. The board is divided into four "tables," each being marked with six long triangular "points'' colored alternately in two colors. The object: to move your draughtsmen in accordance with the dice throws from your opponent's inner table to your own, and off, before he does...