Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first essential is to get out of one's head the modern and materialistic idea that the object of lying in bed is to sleep ... [it is] to enjoy oneself, and it is no more than a fortunate accident that good sleeping and waking happen to contribute to the main object. . . . Similarly, one's object in designing the . . . bedroom must be not ... to provide a place where . . . one may be able to sleep, but a place where one can enjoy oneself to the full...
...cries Author Reynolds, "for a magic carpet of infinite dimensions that could transport all the leaking drains and condemned closets from all the slums of the Empire and heap them in Downing Street [as an] object lesson. . . !" Viewed from his standpoint of the philosopher-sanitarian, the course of world history is essentially intestinal...
...left side of a clock? Looking from the front, the steering wheel of a car is on the right side; the starboard running light of a ship is on the left. To determine the "side" of anything else, you look at it from behind or, really, you consider the object's own viewpoint. Why slight the clock...
Drew Pearson was told the facts of life last week by the Rapid City, S. Dak. Journal, which prints his stuff, but doesn't always agree with it. Said the Journal in an editorial: "We especially object to what Drew Pearson said this week . . . that there were 'already 14,000 Japanese children in Japan born of G.I. fathers.' This is a biological impossibility by our counting. American troops did not land in Japan in great numbers until the latter part of September. . . . Figure it out yourself, Mr. Pearson...
...pricing of new stock issues, long a headache to underwriters, became a matter of Government concern last week. Specific object of Government curiosity: the bizarre price fluctuations of new issues. Examples: Publicker Industries, issued at 23, hopped to 30 by 3 o'clock the same day. Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co., issued at 31, closed...