Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What he is afraid of is of course obvious. He does not want to be confronted with difficult questions over the evening paper. And no father or member of a school board can be expected to know his metaphysics. But he should not object to the thinking of the members of the club...
...masked inquisitors, and Nessie not being found, the bastinadoes of righteousness descend upon Abner when he returns to marry the girl. Nessie, seeking refuge under an express train, is rescued and married by the village infidel, Belshue the jeweler, a mournful, middle-aged creature, who was the chief object of her missionary work before her downfall...
...paragraph you published under SCIENCE some nine months ago: "But to exhibit to him another wonder quite as amazing, let him examine the most minute things he knows. . . . Dividing these again, let him exhaust his power of forming such conceptions, and then let us consider the last, the least object at which he can arrive. Perhaps he will think that it is the limit of littleness in nature. But I will show him a new abyss. I will paint for him not only the visible universe, but all the immensity of nature that one can conceive, within the bounds...
...Begg: "Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, to make a statement, I appreciate...
...strike, contrary to many reports, was entirely industrial and had as its only object a satisfactory solution of the coal mining difficulty which had come to an impasse. Following the brief period of prosperity in 1919 the conditions of the miners had been steadily growing worse over a period of five years. Finally in August of last year further wage reduction became necessary in order to keep the mines going. But the workers had reached rock bottom already, and a Royal Commission was appointed while the government agreed to subsidize the industry...