Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held a "smoker" last week. They exploded smoke bombs in the cavern they had built, far under the Hudson River, to produce a volume of fumes equivalent to that which would be caused if an automobile burned up on its way through one of the two tubes. Object: to test the ventilating system, upon which the whole success of the tubes depended. Result: complete success. The fumes did not spread more than 50 feet; were swept out of the tunnel in less than two minutes. . . . The problem of ventilating 9,250-foot tubes was more complicated than it would appear...
Historical material was furnished by Hermann Hagedorn, biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. Much of his research is incorporated into the film ably directed by Victor Fleming. Primarily, however, the object was a tingling war melodrama, not a historical epic...
Concerning this amazing character, Philip Guedalla has apparently learned all that a brilliant bio-romancer can learn. U. S. readers will not object if Author Guedalla's treatment of political problems is so trifling as to make him appear lazy when he is not facetious...
...object of the Harvard Fund is to raise money by voluntary contribution from the alumni for the unrestricted use of the President and Fellows of the University. There is no suggestion of compulsion concerning either the fact of the subscription or the amount of it. A subscription blank is sent annually to every alumnus of the University, and the individual has absolute freedom of decision whether to subscribe or not, and how much. These blanks have been sent out to all members of the class of 1927, by Lawrence Coolidge, Class Agent...
Inheritors. As the last in her repertory, Eva Le Gallienne revives Susan Glaspell's Inheritors, a play on true Americanism. For those who do not object to a lofty propaganda with their theatre, it offers tense, lucid drama. For others, it seems wordy. The first scene shows the farmer-pioneer, Silas Morton (Robert F. Ross), struggling against the materialism of his family who object to bequeathing their best hill to the state for the erection of a college that will preserve "the best that has been thought and said." But in 1879, Morton College is founded...