Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Very few German girls stay at home now. The younger men accept this as a necessary condition partly due to the War; but of course some of the older men object to seeing women in offices and public positions. . . . My own interests are divided between industrial problems and the Hamburg Burgerschaft (House of Burgesses). Most of its other women members are teachers. . . . Oh, we are not so different from Americans. There are few Germans like my husband and myself, but we are happy...
...close of a concert season is an emotional time for the faithful who have listened all winter. When the fast note has fallen away, shouts rise above the handclapping. The conductor becomes an object of overt adoration, especially if he has won the heart of his audience only recently. So it was last week in Carnegie Hall, at the end of Guest Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler's third season with the New York Philharmonic. In 1925 he first came as guest conductor, a studious young man from Berlin and Vienna who had pleased without enchanting. Last year...
...Before Thursday's experiment, of course, stationary pictures were broadcast for long distances, but this is the first time that moving pictures, of moving objects, have been seen over the wires. Television consists in rapidly transmitting still pictures, in speeding up the picture at least 100 times faster than would be necessary to transmit a stationary object or picture. The picture is produced by the passing of a bright light over a screen. Up to this time, and even now, the great difficulty in broadcasting moving objects has been brought about by a lack of intense light. Until a means...
...pile of fagots at his feet, again asked him to recant his life's teachings. He replied with his eyes on the clouds: "God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel. . . I now joyfully die." The flames licked out his life; minions of the Holy See threw his ashes and the sod beneath his feet into the Rhine...
...object of war is to put the enemy out of fighting condition just as soon as possible, and the only way to do that is to kill its men", said the General with no compunction whatsoever. "Poisonous gases do that, and do it very quickly; that is why I think they will have much influence in deciding the outcome of the next...