Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes make less noise than an automobile. Under the terms of a federal contract, they are being flown to find how silent an airplane must be before the community won't object...
...answer to your question "What's the matter with U.S. stamps?" [TIME, Sept. 20], I believe that most serious-minded collectors object not to the number of different stamps issued this year, but, rather, to the things or occasions for which some of them are being issued...
...note, Moscow declared that a lot of "false noise was raised" by the Western powers, proposed that the Berlin issue be returned to the Big Four. The West rejected the note and the Security Council started its debate. Cried Vishinsky: "Gentlemen, you have come to the wrong address ... I object to the inclusion of this item on the agenda...
...Peter Kurd's open-air portrait of his daughter Carol glowed with paternal warmth and offered a modern object lesson in the egg-tempera technique of the Renaissance masters...
...principal object of the competition is to learn the system used on the field and in the office. The Competition will last six weeks. The outstanding candidate will then manage the Harvard-Yale freshman game and receive his numerals. In the spring five more managers will be selected to enter the Sophomore competitions for Varsity, J.V., and Freshman managers...