Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invention as merely one more of the terrific weapons in that unimaginable armory which will supply the armies of the Next War. We have already gas of such potency that it will lay waste whole cities; the "ray" is not so deadly as this; it attacks only the specific object at which it is directed. And there remains the justifiable skepticism in the ability of all of these lethal toys to perform in action as atipulated. After all, they must be operated by human beings, and, human beings are vulnerable. Probably the horrors of war will be increased...
...that is necessary in order to immortalize a person, a locality, or even an inanimate object, is to have some near great poet commemorate its existence in deathless verse. At once tables are erected, little fences constructed, and the lives of prominent visitors made tedious with tours of inspection, personally conducted by a legal and enthusiastic peasantry. Unfortunately; however, human nature is of so frail a cast that when a poet has exercised his skill on behalf of some deserving object. Impostures are promptly brought into being by envious souls yearning for similar redirected glory, who also erect tablets, construct...
...articles attached would be virtually equivalent to asking them to acknowledge that the United States is a specially privileged nation. It would require every country joining the Lodge Court to acknowledge formally the Monroe Doctrine. Most nations are content to accept the Monroe Doctrine in practice, but many would object violently to initial it as a sign of their formal approval. Other nations would object similarly to "O. K.'ing" our immigration policy, whatever it may finally turn out to be. And some would be almost certain to insist that if we could write our preferred policies into...
...stay outside the Socialist party until she understands what Socialism means." ¶ During a debate on proposed increase in the British and U.S. Navies John Harris, Liberal, asked the Government: "Will the British Government approach the United States Government concerning the possibility of another naval conference with the object of preventing a new race in the construction of this [cruisers] powerful type of warship...
...Company's products to persons requiring it, at actual cost, which shall be considered the lowest possible price consistent with the maintenance and extension of the Company's plant or plants and 'business and the payment of reasonable salaries and wages to all the employes of said Company, my object being to insure 'service' both to the purchasing public and to Labor on the basis of the golden rule given by our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ...