Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left them qualified to compete for more prize money at Chicago in September. Los Angeles. Traditionally the National Air Races begin and end with a bang. The biggest event is always the last-the Thompson Trophy Race (in which a 300 m.p.h. landplane record was this year's objective). Next in importance, although spectators see only the finish, is the Transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race which raises the curtain. This year's Bendix race, starting from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., was a battle between the builders who divided highest honors last year-Z. D. Granville and Wedell-Williams...
...forts owing to domestic troubles in Paraguay during last 30 years, penetrating slowly into undisputed Paraguayan Zone recognized as such by treaties signed by themselves, by U. S. and by the Argentine Republic. Bolivia has never cultivated or owned an inch of ground in that region. Bolivian authorities' object in claiming Chaco is only apparently obtention of outlet on river Paraguay -real object being political-for party preponderance. Former Bolivian Presidents confessed repeatedly, their country had no title or rights to Chaco. Paraguay does want peace, but will as little consent sharing Chaco with turbulent neighbor, as any householder...
Virgin Birth, he believes, may some day be proved biologically possible. An individual so produced would probably be a male, with half the normal number of chromosomes. Of the propriety of investigating virgin birth, Dr. Barnes says: "Reverence and truth can always be combined, unless the object of our reverence should happen to be untrue...
...they added one more element: they bought into the Missouri Pacific. This road took them into new territory across the Mississippi, suggested the idea of a transcontinental system. This idea they vigorously deny, saying that their object was to obtain diversification in their investment, to obtain a road whose traffic, unlike that of the eastern roads, is not largely dependent upon coal. Today the MOP, in receivership, is the cat & dog of their holdings, while the C. & O., a coal road, which continues to pay dividends, is their paragon...
...tenor Henrico Ferraro dodges his ranting manageress, Non-Stop Nora, to strike an acquaintanceship with a garrulous and none too scrupulous stranger. When the stranger buys wine with his money, Ferraro does not object. When the stranger takes the liberty of inviting himself into the same hotel room, Ferraro remains tolerant. But when the stranger is mistaken for the tenor, Ferraro is delighted...