Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consummate variety of the program might in itself be a worthy object of study and admiration to those concerned in the make-up of numbers for "high-brow" concerts. The blase critic, weary from countless discussions as to the relative merits of Stravinsky and Schoenberg, of abstract and "program" music, would pass an evening in which he would feel only the highest admiration for the obvious results which careful and prolonged training had brought in the maintenance of high, technical standards, a spontaneous ensemble and a genuine interpretive ability...
...known as the Student Vagabond. He will write a daily column in the Harvard paper concerning his academic travels. According to the CRIMSON the announcement of this new creation "has been greeted by members of the faculty as a progressive step toward the stimulation of intellectual curiosity." "The primary object," the CRIMSON continues, "of the daily contributions of the Student Vagabond will be to facilitate visiting by students to courses in which they are not regularly enrolled...
...Senate Mr. Edge of New Jersey, ardent wet, asked leave to have the Empringham statement printed in the Record, and Senator Willis of Ohio, ardent dry, said he would not object if Wayne B. Wheeler's answer were also printed...
...coast. The price agreed on was $59 cash, or $145,000,000 if all stockholders demanded cash instead of exchange securities, about $165,000,000 if exchange alone was made. Associated Oil, owned by Pacific Oil until the latter's merger with Standard Oil of California, had been an object of great interest to half a dozen bidders, including the Tide Water...
...will have it that the welfare of "Italia bella"* was and is the one object which he has always passionately striven to advance. Before the War he believed that he had found among the Socialists the men who were trying to rescue Italy from her "misgovernment." Then the War precipitated a crisis ip which the Socialists wanted international "peace at any price," whereas Mussolini eventually came to feel that the national glory of Italy demanded that she should fight?expand. He rushed off to fight. He obeyed an officer who commanded him to fire "just once more" a trench-mortar...