Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object for which all this hardship and disease is being undergone seems trivial in the extreme. It will make the race of men no happier to know that somewhere in the tangle of tollage that is the Darien peninsula there really is a band of fair haired, thin lipped natives. Science will be little the wiser, and the sum total of human knowledge will not be appreciably increased. The real explanation for this and for all such expeditions is only partly scientific curiosity; it is much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into...
...Gooding long and short haul bill. The bill has to do with a phase of railroad rate-making usually referred to by the words "Charge whatever the traffic will bear." This does not necessarily mean, as it is sometimes interpreted, to raise rates as high as possible. The object of the Gooding bill is to prevent the railroads from lowering certain rates. The problem came up in 1887 and was referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The existence of the Panama Canal has put a new twist in it. The essence of the problem is that under certain conditions...
...certain feeling of discouragement in such circumstances is not unnatural; it is most embittering to have a benevolent idea fail, and fail solely because the object of one's benevolence is too unworthy to appreciate what is being done for him. But at the same time, life would be tiresome without its setbacks. Instead of submitting to the fell clutch of circumstance, Sir Henry should call up his fighting spirit and try again. Generalities cannot be drawn from single cases...
...second chief objection lies in the fact that men go through college with their eyes upon the Divisionals, rather than upon intellectual interests. Tais is of course more true of the Modern Language than of the other Departments, where as in History, courses are more inclined to interweave with one another, and where consequently, so many courses are not needed. The general cry of my advises this year has been, "I cannot take Fine Arts or Latin, or Economics; I must have Marvell and Beddoes for my Divisionals." In my our case, I had had when I graduated twenty courses...
...Said Eduard after the conclave: "Our country is rich and prosperous and we, therefore, have everything to lose and nothing to gain by any change. The object of my policy, therefore, has been to consolidate our present position by working hard to create a network of treaties around Czecho-Slovakia to guarantee her against any setting aside of the existing peace treaties which lay down her independence and status...