Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth, dug trenches and excavations that looked like foxholes. They were building perhaps the biggest topographical map ever made. When finished, it will be a mile-long concrete model of the Mississippi Valley, complete with tributaries, hills and mountains, stretching from Pittsburgh to Denver, from Minneapolis to New Orleans. Object: a laboratory to study flood control...
...three leading operatic cities of the U.S. an object lesson in opera financing was offered last week...
Witches' Broth. Private Borchers' letter landed plop in the midst of the West's most violent racial hysteria since "Yellow Peril" pioneer days. The 112,000 U.S. Japanese evacuated from the West Coast had become the object of hatred more intense than the anti-German-American feeling of World War I. The U.S. mortally hates and fears the Jap; but the furiously boiling stew had many other ingredients. Professional patriots, demagogues and sensational newspapers, led by the Hearst press, were vigorously stirring the witches' broth...
...object of these operations is to destroy the German land, air and sea forces, and Germany's war industry; in short, to defeat Germany on the battlefronts...
Franklin Roosevelt, six years ago the object of grammarians' tuts for his liking for "like" in the wrong places, escaped another tutting by a blue pencil's stroke. Conning ahead of time the text of a minor Roosevelt speech, New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock encountered "like in many cases," quickly phoned a Presidential aide. The President, reached in time, made...