Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Borah bill came up on the regular Senate calendar. Conservative Senator Reed of Pennsylvania promptly suggested it be passed over. Senator Borah resolutely moved that in spite of the objection the bill be considered and he demanded a roll call. The clerks called the 96 names, and...
"These men are husky and have raised no objection to doing the work. A cotton planter weighs less than 100 lb., the ground has been thoroughly pulverized and bedded twice, and it requires no great effort to pull it. The men are being worked for only a reasonable length of...
The objection may be raised that wars are not waged because of principles, but that is a matter of opinion rather than of historical fact. It is conceivable, moreover, that wars might be fought for the preservation of certain ideals over others. A war between eastern and western civilizations might...
One member, Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, disapproves of the production because "it is a bad play dramatically, but my objection has nothing to do with the morality." Other members were divided over the value of the play.
If the decision accords with the moral standards of the fifth century B.C. and of the twentieth century A.D. its nature is obvious: for the play is based upon ideas taken from several Greek myths, those concerning the Argonauts' adventures and the life of Persephone. Thus it is mainly a...