Search Details

Word: objectionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Among his more routine complaints was an objection to the "Communist-affiliated" speakers in Darthmouth's Great Issues course. He pointed, further, to "a dozen faculty members" who had "leftist connections.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Green Red, But Not So Red As Crimson, Decides Chi Trib | 5/29/1951 | See Source »

Arizona's 73-year-old Carl Hayden, chairman of the powerful Rules Committee, spoke the Senate's mind: "We all fully support the idea . . . My criticism is that the [proposal] does not go far enough." Without objection, the Kem proposal was passed, about six hours after Britain itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Warning to Allies | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

"I have no objection to the noise they call music these days, any more than I have to the daubs they call art these days, but I would like to see ... people interested in good music."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Waltz on a Spinet | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

The Christian Century published an exchange of learned letters last week on the niceties of biblical translating. One contributor, Steven T. Byington, took a stand against the practice, long common in printing the King James version, of italicizing all words not in the original texts. Byington's objection: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Danger of Italics | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Whether or not these views are correct, the main objection to this person's entire line of thought is that, invoking the name of liberalism and free thinking, he is in actuality practicing a dogma more absolute than that found in any religion. Certainly the presence at Harvard of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religion and Privacy | 5/10/1951 | See Source »

Previous | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | Next