Word: objection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Britain stalled for time again last week in deciding what to do about the irresistible force of Zionism that has met the immovable object of Arab nationalism in the blood-stained hills of the Holy Land. Last year a Royal Commission under the late Lord Peel, having duly visited Palestine, taken copious notes, heard both sides' pleas, recommended that the country be partitioned into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Corridor. So great was the Arab terrorism that followed the announcement of this plan that last April the British Cabinet sent out another commission under...
...nonidentical" orders of meaning connected with each basic phenomenon. Thus, one plate in the implement represents a phenomenon (e.g., an apple), and the holes in it represent its infinite number of scientific characteristics, some perceptible to man, some unknown. Linked to that is a disc representing the physical, perceptible object, and to that in turn are linked labels which stand for verbal descriptions, inferences from the object...
...children come from a child clinic in Brookline, which has kept tabs on their physical development since birth. This year eight prematurely born youngsters have been added to the list, with the object of determining if they exhibit certain personality traits differing from normal children...
Hubbard doesn't object to professionalization as such. "The only thing which is really wrong is that football is a professional business which pretends to be amateur," he admits. His solution is open subsidization of players. "Some of the money, at least, would go where it ought to go--to the men who earn it," he concludes...
...taking either one course or another. They are rather indifferent to schedules and fields of concentration, and any requirement that steers them into a course of such proved value can only be for their good. Furthermore, it seems to be the case that the average student does not object strongly to required courses as such. The reports of the various language courses in the Confidential Guide record no great objection to the necessity of taking any one of them. Even the English A report is not unfavorable and the protests which are heard occasionally can be attributed more...