Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government rests in the supposition that the sovereign power over money and foreign commerce must not be hamstrung by pre-existing arrangements by contract. Congress, New Dealers contend, may abrogate rights arising under a contract when such action is reasonably necessary to carry out some proper legislative object...
...blue woolen chiton, black stockings, classical sandals, her red hair in two braids, Mrs. Angelo Sikelianos of Greece, who 32 years ago was Eva Palmer of Manhattan, trudged through the White House doorway one morning when the thermometer was -2° to keep an appointment with Mrs. Roosevelt. Their object: a conference on the "Delphic Movement" and the possibility of setting up a U. S. "hostel"' near the white marble ruins that strew the hillside of Mt. Parnassus where stood the ancient oracle of Delphi...
...which makes Eleusis by far the oldest Greek city exhumed and, according to Dr. Mylonas, disposes of the theory that the rites were imported from Egypt. Also cleared last season was the 14th Century Palace of the Rulers, where the Goddess was supposed to have taken refuge. An object of search and speculation for 25 years, the palace revealed one room closely resembling the throne room of the Palace at Knossos. Broken pottery and crude clay figurines were found. Final task was clearing the well beside which the goddess rested. The diggers were hopeful that it contained a wealth...
...Democratic steamroller was to flatten: 1) the few remaining Constitutionalists who object to Congress abdicating its power over the public purse; 2) the pork-packers who want to salt away some of the $4,000,000,000 for their constituencies; 3) the Ickes-haters, who, thoroughly angered by the PWAdministrator's treatment of Congress, object to giving him more spending money (see p. 22). For generations all good House steamrollers have had a special attachment for rolling over such opposition-the Rules Committee...
...Murdock's Report. The purpose of the Tutorial System is to furnish students with the intellectual stimulus of an advanced mind and with guidance through the welter of unnecessary material belaboring any field of study. Obviously, the system was not designed to compete with Cambridge Tutoring Schools whose only object is to cram unprepared men with the material necessary to pass an examination. If, as Dean Murdock seems to feel, increasing numbers of students are demanding of their tutors information available through research, the evils need to be brought out into the open. They should be met by a frank...