Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placards to crooks. Fresh reason for the statement was announced by John E. Seebold of Rochester, N. Y. Aided by General Electric Co. experts, Mr. Seebold had perfected a detective camera for installation in rooms likely to attract burglars. As soon as the burglar (or any moving person or object) passes between a light sensitive fixture at one end of the room and a light at the other, the camera quietly takes any number of photographs (up to 160) of all that is occurring in front of it. Even tampering with the light by which the camera "sees" to record...
...credit" system is the object of a particularly pointed attack by Dr. William Setchel Learned of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a paper on "The Quality of the Educational Process in the United States and in Europe" in the Foundation's current bulletin. Dr. Learned contrasts the disciplined convergence upon a single field, in European scholarship, with the dissipation of energy and attention permitted in U. S. classrooms, where Humorist Stephen Leacock pretended to find a student "taking Turkish, music and architecture not because he meant to be choirmaster in a Turkish cathedral but because...
Sirs: ... I object to TIME, in its present policy and makeup, on four counts : 1) It is 11% in. long. 2) Nine-point type* is used in the text whereas brevier is highly preferable. 3) There are 48 pages to TIME. There are items of sufficient interest to fill out one more page, and 49 pages, being 7x7, would be especially lucky. 4) The page numbers in the advertising sections are at the bottom of the pages, though they are at the top of other pages. . . . H. LINCOLN HOUGHTON Singapore...
...First, it should be a message which frankly acknowledges that it is impossible to try one age by the moral standards of another.... Standards are always modified and adapted to what at the moment are regarded as the object most beneficial to the individual or the social organization...
...intransitive - cannot be used with an object...