Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object is twofold, to turn the student's interest to the mastery of the subject instead of the accumulation of credits in courses, and to teach him to analyze and correlate his knowledge of its various parts. To guide him and help him in doing this he is assigned to a tutor whom he meets at intervals more and more frequent each year of his college life. His tutor is designated as soon as he selects his field of concentration near the end of his Freshman year, and through the three succeeding years of college he has a teacher...
...Another object of the expedition is to investigate the Sargasso Sea, a drifting mass of seaweed in mid-Atlantic, about the latitude of Florida and the Canaries and about the longitude of the Newfoundland Banks. It is only gradually being disentangled from the popular legend surrounding it, although Christopher Columbus himself ran afoul of it on his first voyage to America. It has been asserted that the weeds are so thick that they entangle whole ships which never escape...
...object of thus organizing the 69th Congress several days before it comes into existence (and probably several months before it assembles) has to do with tax reduction. The caucus will choose the Republican majority members of the next Ways and Means Committee. There is a prospect now that Mr. Coolidge will call Congress in session some time during the fall for tax revision. If the members of the Ways and Means Committee are chosen in advance, they can assemble in Washington several weeks before Congress as a whole assembles, and have a tax revision bill ready to report...
Since the Government was put upon a budget system, there have been seven regular meetings of the Federal "business" organization ? seven meetings with the purpose of reducing Federal expenditures. Last week, President Coolidge went before an eighth meeting to urge the same object. In Continental Memorial Hall, just a block southwest of the. White House, 2,000 people assembled to hear the President and General Lord, Director of the Budget. Messrs. Mellon, Hoover, Wilbur, Work, Gore, Stone were on the platform representing the Cabinet. General Hines, Chief of Staff, and Admiral Eberle were there likewise. "The meeting...
...Just as 100 years ago, they hanged Patriarch Gregorius V., so today, before the eyes of the civilized world and in defiance of international treaties, they have expelled Constantinos VI, with the object of abolishing the Patriarchate, which for centuries has been the centre of Christianity and civilization through which Europe was regenerated...