Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other side of the case (not Mr. Lasker, however; he keeps silence) argues: The trip is required by law. The presence of 600 guests will cost the Government only $6,000 and will be worth more than $1,000,000 in advertising. The object of the trip is to give the Leviathan 20 or 30 trials at various speeds over a measured mile course to furnish her master with accurate data on the efficiency of her new oil engines and work out a "performance curve" which he may use in maneuvering his vessel. The mile course requires special conditions...
During the past four months Queen Wilhelmina received King Gustavus V of Sweden and the King and Queen of Spain. The presence of so many monarchs at the Court of the Netherlands is said to have great political significance. Nothing definite has been published regarding the precise object of the visits, but well-informed circles have it that Holland, Spain, Norway, Sweden will unite in keeping clear of entanglements in international politics resultant upon the various peace treaties...
...multitude of alumni who, beginning Saturday and continuing until Tuesday, will flock back to their former habitat will furnish to those about to join their ranks an object lesson in the attractive power of class feeling. They will show the value of joining early the existing graduate organizations in order not to miss anything. But aside from personal satisfaction alone there is, as Mr. Wadsworth points out, the duty of joining. Traditions, policies, material help have emanated from the organized alumni and the members of the University, having benefited by these priceless gifts owe in return at least the service...
...least as completely under the control and regulation of the Government in each and every respect as the Inter-State railways are now put. . . . Our prime object must be to have the regulation accomplished by continuous administrative action and not by necessarily intermittent law suits...
...France and England virtually means suicide. A few bombing planes can destroy an entire city. No corner of the combatant countries is safe from attack and defense is virtually impossible. To save modern civilization, the avoidance of aerial warfare, not the folly of competitive armament, should be the object of governments. Mr. Wells is a practical man, in spite of many fancies...