Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...45th time, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers assembled for its annual meeting. The place was Manhattan. The attendance was composed of a group of the most emi- nent engineers in the country. The object was the exchange of ideas, discoveries and criticisms which each of these scientific minds had been maturing privately during the past year...
...Fosdick has for several years been in the thick of the fight between the Modernists and Fundamentalists. As the Baptist minister of a Presbyterian Church, he became the object of attack by both religious bodies. He especially incurred the wrath of William Jennings Bryan, who believes with Dr. John Roach Straton, that "there are no missing links and no ape men." The culmination of this bitter and pitiless attack on the great liberal religious leader came last fall when the First Presbyterian Church of New York, where Dr. Fosdick has been minister, for several years, decided to sever all relations...
...primary object of the meeting is to stress the importance of the approaching mid-year examinations...
...civilization after living under such horrible conditions. Even if a few do not succumb before the end of their term to the many tropical fevers that infest the colony, when released, they are obliged to pass under parole a corresponding number of years. Thus, in whatever way, the primary object of the colony is accomplished: that no convict should come back alive to tell the tale...
...Since 1611, the Old Testament has been translated by Protestants into many languages (Spanish, Italian) which previously had had only the Vulgate or other Roman Catholic translations. Also, English divines in 1882-84 and U. S. divines in 1901 made a complete revision of the King James version. Their object was to keep the King James version intact except where it palpably mistranslated the original tongues...