Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said New Jersey's sage, white-crowned Charles A. Eaton: "The object of this legislation-and do not forget it-is to help those people to help themselves. . . . It is impossible for us to continue to be an island of prosperity in an ocean of adversity. . . . We cannot be a healthy nation surrounded by a sick world...
...Democrats' President. But now he seemed to have become the soldiers' President-a President who thought, argued and acted with the stubborn singleness of purpose growing out of daily orders to and reports from the fronts. The soldiers were asking: Why should the folks at home object to being drafted for work, when we have been drafted to fight...
...plan is to get 100 or more metropolitan hospitals to contribute eyes from cadavers, always getting legal releases, even for willed eyes, as relatives often object to their removal. Each of the hospitals in succession will get a week's supply of eyes, will turn over any extra eyes to other hospitals that need them. A very few eyes will go a long way-one sound eye can provide grafts for as many as three blind eyes. Once the eye bank gets established, no blind person whose cornea can be repaired should have to wait very long...
Inter-American affairs have been the object of much of Dr. Berrien's activity. He was chairman of the CIAA Conference on Modern Language Teaching in 1942, and vice-president of Institute International de Literature Iberoamericana, 1940-1942. He has been chairman of numerous conferences and committees on Latin-American affairs since 1939. In the literary field he has been Associate Editor of "Hispania" since 1942, Associate Editor of "Revista Iberoamericana," 1940-1943, and Co-General Editor of "Handbook of Brazilian Studies...
...rabbi reported: "On one occasion the 'mazooza' [a packet approximately four inches long, which contains a portion of the Scriptures and is nailed to the doorpost of the entrance to the congregation, and is regarded as a very sacred object] was found to be denied and smeared with manure. I, personally, saw that desecration and I myself wiped the surrounding area...