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Word: objection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failure of Russia (which is not a big world trader) to ratify within the time limit was regretted in Washington and London as an unfortunate sign of noncooperation, but no one thought that it would make much difference. The Fund has little usefulness for a totalitarian economy; its object is to make private trade possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Toward Stability | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Newspapers called it the worst fog in 20 years. Officially, it was no record. The women clerks in the Air Ministry who test fogs by searching from the roof for 14 well-known landmarks (like Nelson's Column), reported that they could just discern "Object X," a building 30 yards away. Weather bugs, who call fogs by colors, dubbed this a "yellow"-worse than a "white" but not as bad as a "black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Big Fog | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Mississippi's splenetic Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo addressed the chair as though he had just been stabbed with a hatpin. Eleanor Roosevelt's name was up for Senate confirmation as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. The Senator objected, guessed that 98% of his constituents would also object, and told his colleagues that he had written a book giving his reasons for objecting.* After that, North Dakota's Republican Senator William Langer reared up to announce that the whole United Nations setup was a square peg in a round hole, a phony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Mrs. Roosevelt, & Others | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Machitsura Hashimoto, commanding the new Japanese submarine I-58 (TIME, Dec. 24), had surfaced for a breath of fresh air, had seen a "dark object" on a converging course. Fair across the "Indy's" bow, all Hashimoto had to do was fire six torpedoes (five of them had magnetic warheads), sit back and wait for the explosions. There were still unanswered questions: more than 800 of the Indy's crew had got off the ship-why had there been no search planes for four days? Who on the Leyte, communications staff had bungled in failing to report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The Good of the Service | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...atomic bomb all the nations, all the people of the earth have a mutual enemy. This enemy is an inanimate object that cannot be fought with men's lives against men's lives. This new-found fear in this newfound age is what will be used to unite the world. . . . To get flowery-the atomic bomb is the long awaited antagonist against which the world, a United World, will be the protagonist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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