Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would try to reform Soviet working habits (Russian diplomats usually work till late into the night); the Secretary grinned and said: "I have a great many important things to settle here and I do not intend embarking on anything I don't have to. Besides, the Russians might object to your use of the word 'reform...
...methods for making Communists more effective were the object, the recent proposal of Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach could hardly find a peer. When he told the House Labor Committee that the Communist Party should be banned from the ballot and, generally speaking, outlawed, the Secretary showed a surprising amount of naivete on the problem with which he is concerned...
Items for sale appearing in the columns have ranged in size from huge to almost microscopic. The largest object offered was an "almost new" Army PT 18 airplane. Other intriguing goods for sale that found their way into the columns were a cluge maker and a one-armed bandit...
...took their troubles to the Veterans Administration, and were told that VA was powerless to help. Last week, however, Smith's President Herbert Davis finished a study of the will and made a manly decision with which the trustees agreed. Said he: the will declares that the leading object of the college shall be the education of young women. "A 'leading object' implies the existence of ... subordinate objects." On that ground, he decided, it was in his power to grant degrees to such subordinate objects...
...Object of municipal police river dragging for several weeks, the body of Sylvester Gardiner '46, College Junior declared missing last January 23, was discovered yesterday afternoon in a lagoon in the Boston Basin of the Charles near the Exeter Street intersection...