Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religious conflict in England differs totally from the U. S. squabbles over elementary science. English clergymen are amazed when they hear that some Americans object, for example, to the evolutionary theory. They are incredulous when told that U. S. divines predict bodily resurrection despite chemical demonstration of the decay and dissolution of flesh. Englishmen overrode these difficulties 40 years ago. Now their troubles are chiefly two. First, economic: Can one Christian child of God eat caviar when another eats nothing? Second, organic: Is there one true Church? If so, where is it? Who is it? What...
...could be stored in a storage battery it would drive an electric automobile for about five miles or heat an electric iron for a day. By experimenting with artificial lightning of about 2,000,000 volts, it was found that lightning does not always strike the highest object, except when that object is 2.5% or more of the distance from the ground to the cloud. When the height of the object is 1.1% of the distance from the ground to the cloud, the chances of its being hit are about 50-50. Nevertheless, a man standing is 15 times more...
...bill to permit the Department of Agriculture to dye all imported field seeds which it finds not adaptable to this country. The object of this bill is to exclude in effect large quantities of Italian clover seed. From experiment the Department of Agriculture believes that this seed is inferior for planting in the U. S. Dying would enable farmers to detect it. ¶The Ketcham Bill to authorize the Department of Agriculture to report market conditions on farm products, acreages, yields, conditions. This bill has passed the House and awaits action in the Senate. ¶The Copper-French Truth...
...ostensible object of the League of Nations is to prevent wars. For years, those who sympathized with the aspirations...
...function of a newspaper is to make money. On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 15, 1878, a well-known Springfield citizen ap peared on his front porch, clad in dressing gown and carpet slippers. In his hands were the family tongs. With these he carefully picked up a tainted object which lay before him. Marching around, instead of through, the house, to avoid the possibility of contagion to holy precints, he deposited the object in the garbage can by the kitchen door. With crisis met and duty done, he resumed the day's meditations...