Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...parlour game is sweeping England ... It is called "Monotony" and is appropriate to our times. It appears to be based on Monopoly, a game [in] which . . . each player's object was to acquire the private ownership of . . . house property, and so forth. In Monotony the aim is to nationalise everything...
Next morning the new parliament convened and with almost unanimous voice appointed meddlesome Henry Head a constable of Sark-a gesture of pure revenge, since Sark's two constables are unpaid and may not resign or refuse their jobs under severe penalty of law. Said Henry Head: "I object...
...upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. AH carbon in living things contains a tiny amount of it, but after the death of an organism, its carbon 14 gradually disintegrates; half of it disappears in about 5,800 years. The amount that has disappeared is a reasonably accurate measure of the object...
...Budget Bureau remarked in its summary that it saw nothing to indicate that the animal was a suicide, and it suggested respectfully that the President should not object to signing the bill to pay Farmer Madison his due, even though the creature was just a horse and not a good Missouri mule. Harry Truman, a reasonable man in such matters, signed his name to the bill and awarded Farmer Madison $75 after six years of waiting. Then, to set his Budget Bureau right, the President appended a footnote...
...football season, already an object of considerable interest in some parts of the country, fortunately does not get moving locally until one week from Saturday. "Fortunately," because the comparatively late starting date provides Coach Lloyd Jordan with one more week of pre-season practice time than that available to any of his opponents, most of whom open this weekend. Yale, whose schedule calls for an open date before the Elis play Princeton, has already successfully inaugurated its season...