Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been in the Navy continuously more than 39 years and never heard the word used as referring to a sailor until during the recent World War. It is only the recruits or some new men in the service that do not object to the use of the term. All the officers and 90% of the men regard the word as an insult on account of its offensive real meaning...
...Bethlehem beam, invented by Henry Grey (1849-1913). Weight for weight it is lighter and stronger than ordinary I-beams, and so is preferred by constructors, who gladly pay a bonus of $2 a ton to Bethlehem which has the patent and production rights. Incidentally they do not object when a Bethlehem salesman wants all their structural business...
...mind answering the questions on the other side of this sheet, but I do object to the one question on college graduates. Is TIME trying to herd its readers into college people and non-college people...
...present school year. Regarded by Fundamentalists as their friendly but most effective enemy, Dr. Coffin is proud to make the historic phrases of an ageless Christianity his own. The Cross has always been in the midst of his preaching. High in his Manhattan Church suspended has been an object rarely found in evangelical churches: a great gilded unadorned cross. Last week, without repetition of the Boothian text, he explained himself more fully...
...Coffin does not seek "the lowest common denominator, a minimum creed and worship to which none can object." Said he: "Anarchy is not an open question with the teachers and students in a school of law. . . . Christian Science is not an open question with the faculty of a college of physicians and surgeons. . . . Union Theological Seminary is committed to the cause of Jesus Christ, to His faith and His purpose and His redeeming power, to training men and women to spread His Gospel. . . . His supremacy as the revelation of God and the Savior of the world is not an open...