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Word: objections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harder to learn than the light, soothing music with which touchdown-thirsty patrons are entertained during dull periods of the game. The Athletic Association has further made things easier by scheduling only seven games that require separate letters, for even the most rabid stickler on form could scarcely object to using the Purdue "P" for the Pennsylvania game. Philologists further point out that none of the Crimson's rivals--except Holy Cross, which because of its double initials presents grave geometric problems--is very difficult to lay out. What, for instance, could be simpler than Vermont's "V" or Indiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIRTY MUSIC | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...nearly lost its entire farmer-labor bloc lately. So the country learned when Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, lone farmer-laborite showed his friends some cinema films last week, taken by him on his vacation in the Canadian Rockies near Banff, Alberta. Upon the screen came three dark, fuzzy objects, moving about in undergrowth many rods away. The largest object struck an attitude of attention and started to approach the camera. Rushing rapidly, it soon proved to be a mother grizzly, charging to defend her whimpering cubs. She charged far enough for Senator Shipstead's friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Personages | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...carried on this year in the mechanical engineering laboratory of the Engineering School. Professor L. S. Marks, who is in charge of the experiments, stated to a CRIMSON reporter that the substitution of a less inflammable, a cheaper, and a more abundant fuel for gasoline would be the object of the investigations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO SUBSTITUTE NEW FUEL IN AIRPLANES | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Oddly enough, the missing object was found near the city from which the inquiries first started, at the Harvard College Library. In one sense disappointment was experienced, for Moses Smith said nothing about the bell. In a different sense I was elated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manuscript by Eye-Witness Tells How Old Ironsides Shook the Mighty Deep--Widener Holds Valuable Document | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

...Nine-tenths of the Hungarian people, including, myself, would gladly welcome the return to a monarchy. Budapest would receive our exiled Queen and Prince Otto as our King with enthusiasm, but the big European powers object to this natural and rational solution of the simple dynastic problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Magyar Kiralyi* | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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