Word: objectives
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...arsenal crawling soldiers and marines had squirmed through the charred ashes of leveled buildings, grasses, companions. Any moment a shell might explode, but most of the firing had ceased after 48 hours. Here a marine sifted, and as the grit drizzled through his sieve, he spied a black, circular object. A ring. Spattered on his shoes lay the reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers who had defied...
...ocean that no wave-motion would be noticed by the most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer Armstrong believes that where distance is the object of aviation, speed should be sacrificed for the sake of safety and comfort...
Colonel Lane-Fox, Parliamentary Secretary for Mines: "I may say that is seems to me that miners who are thoughtful of the welfare of their wives and children will not object to working an extra hour...
...object was to produce an animal that, on minimum food, would work harder in hot weather than a mule. This he succeeded in doing, although the zebroids are difficult to break to harness However, at six years old, the eight zebroids do any farm work that horses perform, and can unquestionably stand far more heat, which is the purpose of the zebra strain. The beasts are docile and intelligent in harness, but race boisterously once loosened in an enclosure, showing speed and agility in pivoting at corners, rivaling panthers in their ease in clearing fences. If the beasts are corraled...
...studied their antics before and after blowing through their cages, from clay pipes, puffs of smoke of Pennsylvania leaf tobacco. None of the rodents exhibited symptoms similar to those of small boys behind barns. On the contrary, the rats ran, jumped, squeaked more actively. Physiologist Field's object: to ascertain the probable effect of smoking on humans. After establishing that tobacco stimulates and produces increased activity, she proposed to investigate the popular notion that the after effects of smoking are depressing...