Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object of the dinner was to honor the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who had been the target lately of some salvos fired by Columnist Drew Pearson. When Argentina's Juan Perón sent along a medal for General Vaughan, "a brilliant soldier in the glorious Army of the United States," Pearson thought thegeneral's acceptance of it out of keeping with President Truman's championing of democractic principles. The members of the R.O.A. thought otherwise. To affirm their confidence in General Vaughan, they presented him with a scroll naming him "Minute...
...towards all philosophical systems and system-builders." He refused to be one of the men & women who try to "remake God and the universe in their own images." His own plea to philosophers: "Why assume that where two philosophies differ one must be wrong? Two pictures of the same object taken from different points can both be true . . ." Philosophy, he contended, was not a science, it was "a way of ... vision." It was that sort of vision that skeptic Morris Cohen tried to give his students...
Army Ordnance can claim that it was the first to send a man-made object outside the earth's atmosphere. At 250 miles up, there is still some air. But it does not behave as a normal gas. Its scattered molecules act more like satellites of the earth, moving on orbits in the earth's gravitational field. Some are shooting up, others curving back. Some may be moving around the earth like infinitesimal moons. A few may escape from the earth entirely. For brief minutes, the WAC Corporal joined this throng of molecular wanderers...
...Sordid Patches. In Berlin, where the Red blockade has thrown thousands out of jobs, most of the women advertisers ask for good providers. Sexy innuendos have proved less effective than ads like this: "War widow in her early forties. Delicate constitution, three children, seeks acquaintance with amiable, responsible gentleman. Object: marriage...
Last week Molina's statue was the object of pious veneration in the fashionable La Ermita church in Cali. Before Easter it will be taken to 16th Century Popayan for the famed Holy Week procession...