Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...excellent health; I expect that I shall be called if the selective service act is passed. I do not object, although I have only contempt for my stupid and inept elders who have let matters come to such a pass...
...published an article by a Texas-born newspaperman and novelist, Eugene P. Lyle Jr., predicting World War II. Laid in the future like one of H. G. Wells's fantasies, it was called The War of 1938. Lyle's story was a forthright piece of propaganda. His object in The War of 1038 was to discourage talk of a negotiated peace, persuade the Allies to crush Germany altogether...
...object of this maneuver was to outwit Adolf Hitler. Large quantities of British paper money arriving in South America, the U. S. and other neutral countries had warned Britain of what was going on. In Poland, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Belgium and France, before they were conquered, citizens hoarded sterling notes. Hitler had evidently found means to extract some of these hoarded millions from their owners and perhaps had augmented the supply by turning his own mints to counterfeiting. At any rate he was using British money to finance his war on Britain. Britain's move turned this prized valuta...
...Lohr's ideas of popular science were unpopular with many top-notch scientists. Coldly received last week was his definition of the object of science & industry: "to supply better goods cheaper." Sniffed scholarly Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, dean of physical sciences at University of Chicago: "Faraday, as he discovered the laws of electricity, which are basic to electrical engineering, was not concerned with making better things cheaper. . . . A tragedy has occurred in the cultural life of our city...
Centrifugal Force. A man in London weighs less than he would at the North Pole, more than he would at the equator. Reason: centrifugal force (which opposes gravity) increases with the distance of the object from the axis of spin. Hence the maximum effect would be felt at the equator (furthermost from the earth's axis of spin), least effect at the Pole (the axis). If the earth's rotation were 17 times faster, men at the equator would weigh nothing, drift off into space...