Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of newspapers was largely centered on the question whether Commander Lansdowne had been ordered to take the flight in spite of his protest. Official correspondence showed that it had been ordered in July, but that Commander Lansdowne had objected that midsummer was a thunderstorm period and had asked that it be postponed until September. Later he recommended that it take place during the second week of September. Instead it was ordered in the first week of the month. To this order he did not object. The purpose of setting the date for the flight...
...glad the United States has shown the world how she treats people of that kind, whom we too often complaisantly ignore. I trust this will act as an object lesson to our people...
When The Vortex was in rehearsal, A. L. Erlanger, veteran of theatrical production and real estate, removed his name from the program because he objected to the situation in the third act where a son describes to her face and with some emphasis Ms mother's moral status. From this and other reports the impression was current that the play was modern, obscene and objectionable. It turned out to be a study, in several of the characters, of idle rich degeneracy. So true was the portraiture, so sure the writing, so engrossing the setting, and so perfect the performance that...
...student need not know, but he must know that part of the subject contained in the book. When he finishes the course he will have a satisfying feeling of having acquired something and of having worked hard to get it. No attempt is made to amuse the students; the object is to make them think...
...important truths about students, professors, and the nature of the relation between the two. Most of the critical reviews show evidence of sincerity on the part of the students in the task they set for themselves in coming to college. In every course they sought a certain object. Where they found it most abundantly, they lavished their praise; where they gleaned in vain, they confessed disappointment. The object so tirelessly sought was stimulation--the awakening of the principle of growth within themselves. Their interest did not bud spontaneously. Be the course what it might, they required more than bare facts...