Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...river. But the ceremony went off without a hitch. Governor Thomas E. Dewey summoned Campbell from New York City to the Executive Chamber in Albany. There, in Campbell's presence, he signed a specially engraved document. The traditional wording of a pardon had been changed from "fit object of our mercy" to "innocent of the crime for which he was convicted...
...Beam That Sees. An electronic supergadget which "sees" as well in the dark as in the light, radar projects a radio beam which, on striking an object near or far, returns an echo that is translated into a visual image on the radar screen. Radar can see the flight of a shell, the wake of a ship, the explosion of a target, the fall of a hit plane. At sea, it can detect buoys, reefs and other ships more than 20 miles away...
Normally the screen shows the size but not the exact shape of the detected object. Occasionally it may get an effect of almost photographic sharpness (the screen in Artzybasheff's drawing, though an exaggerated animation, is based on a ''shadow effect" actually caught in one freakish radar picture of a plane a couple of hundred yards away...
Like light, the ultrashort radio waves used in radar can be focused in a beam, are reflected by solid or liquid surfaces, travel with the same speed as light (186,000 miles a second). But for "seeing" distant objects, radio waves have a great advantage over light: they penetrate fog, clouds and smoke, reach out to far greater distances than the naked eye. And unlike light, radio impulses can easily be controlled to give an exact, automatic measurement of the distance to the detected object...
...Military Objective. In Dunn, N.C., the Dispatch received an ad: "Young soldier with four and a half years of duty would like to meet a young widow with three children. Object: 85 points...