Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...object--a heightened academic pace--dovetailed closely with another way for Harvard to help solve the problem which would be created by increased pressure for college admissions. This was the view that saw the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--both the College and the Graduate School--as an upper-level teachers' college, a Ph.D. mill to supply the nation's college instructors...
...perfectly satisfactory to Myra. "I love married life," she said, adding that though Jerry had been too busy to buy her a wedding ring, he did get her a red Cadillac. And her father, who played bull fiddle in Jerry Lee's band, didn't seem to object either. But the London press, already fed up with the antics of Britain's own rock-'n'-roll stars, was all shook up now. The Daily Mail angrily demanded that Jerry be sent back "whence he came, somewhere in the mid-belt of America's deep...
...choice as a last resort. During his jam-packed Paris press conference at the beginning of the week, the man who boasts that he brought the Fourth Republic into existence gave open encouragement to Algeria's rebellious soldiers and settlers, noted sardonically that they "have not been the object of any sanctions on the part of the public authorities . . . Why would you have me call them sedition-mongers?" But at the same time the general made it clear that he had no intention of leading a coup d'état. "I am a man," said he, "who belongs...
...good 1,600 miles southeastward from Florida last week, watchers aboard the Navy's salvage ship Escape spotted a white object as it hurtled out of the sky and plunged into the Atlantic. It was the nose cone of a Jupiter IRBM, launched only minutes earlier from a pad at the Cape Canaveral missile test center. Hoisted aboard Escape, the recovered cone proved that the Army had solved both the reentry problem and the accuracy problem. Hitting the target area at a range of 1,600 miles was a feat of marksmanship considerably more remarkable than nicking a dime...
...commented that he certainly would not object to additional contributions from these sources, but that the estimates were not yet complete. Sound-proofing the dining hall is a part of the large scale physical revisions planned for Leverett House which will include the construction of a new wing...