Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the fact that a large number of the students object to the preamble to the petition for voluntary prayers, now before the College, those interested in the movement have a decided opportunity to make an important change. There are many who would be glad to sign the petition, but who hesitate on account of what they call "revolutionary language," and the pledge to "concerted action." To succeed we must have everybody's signature; therefore the objectionable preamble has been torn off, and the petition stands alone, as presented in Tuesday's CRIMSON...
Grudgingly the German Government, when its approval was asked, retorted that. although in its opinion no troops were needed, it would not object. Privately in Geneva bewildered German diplomats kept saying: "It is some sort of English trick...
...Report advises that the Viceroy be empowered to veto any tariff measures which Indians may advance "only if, in his opinion, the intention of the policy contemplated is to subject trade between the United Kingdom and India to restrictions conceived not in the interests of India but with the object of injuring the interests of the United Kingdom...
Like all extended contests, the Post's started out to be childishly, incredibly simple. The object was to choose which of several given names best fitted a cartoon drawn by John Held Jr. A new cartoon appeared every weekday for ten weeks. The person submitting the "best or most appropriate names" to the 60 drawings in the series was to get the first prize, $10,000. However, as the contest wore on, the pictures became more and more obscure, the lists of names longer and longer, until several names seemed equally appropriate. That reduced the possibility of ties. Result...
...What They Are Saying" is the Mirror's contest, copied by permission from London Tit-Bits. A set of four action photographs is printed every day for 28 days. Object: to guess which of 48 suggested "sayings" best fits each picture. All readers of this gumchewers' sheetlet who can decipher English are expected to get the first two weeks' examples perfectly. Hence, the tabulating company retained by the Mirror does not even examine the entries until the final, difficult ones have been received. Then the tabulators begin searching for highest scores among the last returns, which narrow...