Word: objection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them as possible. Unfortunately the British Minister to Irak, Sir Francis Humphrys, was on vacation in Norway last week, had to be recalled to London and then despatched post haste to Irak by agitated Scot MacDonald. Meanwhile in Bagdad, King Feisal who as a Mohammedan does not greatly object to the massacre of Assyrians or other Christians, tried to dodge all responsibility by insisting that his health is poor, that he must fly to Switzerland "to complete my cure...
Each year at the Dublin Horse show, The Irish Independent exhibits some outlandish animal or object, offers a prize to the one who can guess its name. When this year's show opened last week the Independent was displaying, in a shallow biscuit tin the last thing an Irishman might expect to see in Dublin-canned rattlesnake...
...brought from reserve banks. Furthermore he ordered each bank to keep 85% of its cash in its vaults under time lock; when the vault was open to keep the bank's doors locked or have two armed guards stationed at the doors until the time lock was reset. Object: to bring down the high cost of holdup insurance...
...excessively trite to say that the world is becoming increasingly interdependent doesn't make the fact less true or less important," said B. M. Cherrington, authority on world affairs who is scheduled to speak before the Summer School tomorrow evening in Emerson D at 8 o'clock. If the object of education is the successful adjustment of the individual to his environment, then education per se must deal with the world, for the environment that conditions the behavior and shapes the destiny of men today is planetary. Among educators this is now accepted generally. That battle essentially...
...half-light a face distorted with fear of discovery shot out of the darkness like some hideous appartion in a nightmare. Suddenly there was a dead silence, and then a muttered "ah." Back in the musty corridors there was a swishing sound and slowly a black object appeared. The figure walked back and forth dragging heavy objects, stopping and cringing at every stab of lightning. Eight, nine, ten lifeless emaciated bodies of human beings formed a pyramid on the floor...