Word: objection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfredo de Oro, 71-year-old Cuban who was the champion pocket-billiard player 47 years ago, Cochran led at 37-10-36. De Oro made a run of four that included a billiard in which his cue ball touched not the minimum of three cushions before striking the object ball, but five. Then he added five more points. But when he missed for ten innings in a row, Cochran tied the score. It was tied again at 48, at 49. De Oro finally clicked off the winning point. Cochran chuckled, blamed his defeat on bad luck...
...other hand, if the depression deepens and the European crisis becomes still more acute, the League may be reduced to a group consisting of France. Poland and the Little Entente whose main object will be to preserve infect the Treaty of Versailles...
...Minnesota, with its strong Scandinavian content. That State has already a Norwegian college--an American center of a purely Norwegian culture. No doubt we shall have some Norwegian "fellows" at Harvard, in the new sense of the word as we already have them in the American. Well, nobody will object to them. We shall extend to them the right hand of fellowship, in every sense of the word...
...seemed to us, then [in 1894] as now, that monies which should accumulate over the amount necessary for a living, under circumstances which would give favorable conditions to work and prepare reasonably for our families, would interfere seriously with the object we had in view...
...vandalism," of "murder with malice aforethought." The American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers (membership: 90) joined the boycott, declaring: "The Rockefeller family had no moral right. . . ." Radical Suzanne La Follette called a protest mass meeting, rallied critics as well as artists. In Mexico City Painter Rivera declared: "My object was attained when the painting was destroyed. I thank the Rockefellers for its destruction because the act will advance the cause of the labor revolution...