Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...rainy morning last week newsmen and photographers picked their way across Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground to a wooden stand overlooking a large, wet field. Soldiers stood on guard. In the middle of the field, some 2,500 feet away, stood a gibbety-looking pole, with a baglike object suspended from it. From the pendent object oozed a steamy vapor...
...fifth of an inch thick, is so elastic that often a heavy blow from a blunt instrument only dents it "momentarily." Yet in such cases the tender brain is almost always wounded. In auto accidents, "when a head in forward motion is suddenly arrested by a massive stationary object, the greatest brain damage occurs at a point directly opposite the point of impact. ¶Even patients who are unconscious "only for a moment" should never be sent home, but should be put to bed for two or three weeks. For many cases of brain injury do not show up until...
Census takers in Pittsburgh revealed that they had not completely succeeded in cataloguing Helen Clay Frick, 49, spinster daughter of the late Steel and Coke Tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Said she: "I am a Republican and a good American citizen. I don't object to the census. I answered every question except those which were not proper. They asked the value of my Pittsburgh home. That is a personal question. . . . They asked my education. That is a personal matter, it is none of their business...
...coxswains of the Yardling and Varsity crows have likewise found great causes for insomnia among the waterbugs, but the Crimson men have a little bit quicker reaction, and a great deal better appreciation of the purpose of the metal object on the stern of each shell, the rudder...
...good cash customer of the Government I object to being treated that way, and I was probably paying for part of that radio talk on top of it. ... This idea of having everybody get poor so nobody can get rich is not going to work in the long...