Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally, there is only one item I object to and that is where I advocate the players should not eat bananas. This should read "unripe bananas" as I have no objection to the fruit when it is ripe...
Action: the King-Emperor approached a huge power press and thrust into it, with well simulated carelessness, not only an object to be pressed but also his right hand. As the huge plunger crashed down, perturbed eyewitnesses could barely follow the lightning movement of a rubber guard which brusquely pushed the royal hand & forearm to a safe distance...
...object of this economic endeavor has not been the making of money for its own sake. It certainly has not been for the purpose of endowing an aristocracy with wealth. It has been fostered and encouraged by the Government in order to provide the people at large with sufficient incomes to raise their standards of living to a position worthy of a free and enlightened nation...
Although the official reason for the visit was that of returning Chancellor Ramek's call, and though it was admitted that the secondary object of the visit was to secure Vienna as an ally at Geneva, it was nevertheless mooted that the real objects were to discuss the anschluss (or union of Austria and Germany) and a preliminary economic entente. Despite denials that these subjects were not broached, it was pointed out that two such distinguished German statesmen, overburdened by the pressure of work, would not make the journey to Vienna for the simple object of discussing a mutual...
...Played with steel studded wooden balls as big as baseballs. The player bowls his first ball (with an underhand, twisting throw) toward a tiny object ball. His opponent strives to bowl nearer the object ball, by shrewd control or oftener by knocking the enemy away...