Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At the present time motorcars kill 5,000-6,000 people per year, and measles 2,000-3,000. And in view of the fact that people tolerate fast motorcars, and readily preventable diseases, their great objection to being bombed from the air is an interesting psychological fact."
Third, Franklin Roosevelt made haste to take up the case of Maryland before it was too late. To draw the sting from his opposition to conservative Democrats he permitted another direct quote explaining that he was acting on principle: "If there is a good liberal running on the Republican ticket...
He has since written nine (to Wife Kathleen's 60), dealing with such topical problems as education (Salt), marriage (Brass), women in business (Bread), birth control (Seed). They have brought him neither the literary reputation of his brother nor the big profits of his wife. But they have been...
Aside from the obvious moral objection to diverting WPA's relief "wages" to political ends, the legal fact remained that the money is paid by the U. S. Treasury and that Section No. 208 of the U. S. Criminal Code specifically prohibits recipients of Federal funds from soliciting each...
Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of the University of London is by turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed...