Word: objectives
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have contemplated going with one meal a day in order to economize so as to be able to renew my subscription to TIME. When I even contemplate sacrificing a good meal for any other object of delight, you can rest assured that that object must be worth while, pleasurable and of great interest-all of which TIME...
...start the pupil on something he understands, such as a story from one of our popular children's magazines. We start at once with the great masters. Since their taste is at first unspoiled they will enjoy them and forever afterwards have high literary taste. The object of teaching literature in schools is the creation of good taste and real appreciation, and so ought it to be in music...
...Hauptmann issued a statement explaining why he deemed himself bound as an artist to decline an honor of this type: "I do not believe conscious leadership is possible in literature. Writers who are thus officially recognized by the state would form a group to which free writers would rightly object...
...Robert Burns to a cigar. English royalty brought no action because the name of Queen Victoria's consort was borrowed for a frock coat. George Washington is godfather to a kind of coffee; Abraham Lincoln to an automobile. Why then should a descendant of General Ambrose Everett Burnside object to having her uncle remembered for his whiskers? So pleaded the counsel defending Colgate & Co. against a suit for damages brought (TIME, May 31) by Miss Ella Patterson of Milwaukee, niece of the whiskered soldier. Her suit was dismissed...
...Author is arrestingly young, only 25 or so, only three years out of Harvard?a fact which seems to have annoyed certain stiff-jointed metropolitan pundits, who, holding Whitman to be an object for grave veneration, have almost called Cameron Rogers an overweening puppy. But young Author Rogers is not overweening nor has he overreached his powers. He is mature, not precocious?maybe as the result of a cosmopolitan upbringing. He and his brothers were schooled in Switzerland. His summer vacations from college were all spent with the Meynell family in England?authors Wilfrid and Alice and their talented children...