Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal devalued the inch. The House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures now has before it a bill to shorten the inch by .00005 millimetres. Since the U. S. inch is denned as 25.40005 millimetres and the British inch is defined as 25.39996 millimetres, the object is to establish uniformity by meeting the British halfway: that is, by making the inch an even 25.4 millimetres which would also key it in with the metric system...
...trying to get back to the 1926 price level? Yes and no. The object is more to establish a balance of prices than to reach a norm...
...Harvard Music Department cannot afford a truly worthwhile investment like Mlle. Boulanger, for the authorities do not even supply enough money to take care of the courses already in progress. In the second place, like certain interests who are afraid of competition from foreign coolie labor, the authorities object to women on the Harvard Faculty and put up a tariff against them. Harvard Faculty women now number three--and they were only admitted after a noisy struggle...
Niemoller on Nazis. Whether or not it was "treason" for Pastor Niemoller to preach, write and talk as he has against the Nazi system, his published sermons* are undoubtedly among the most controversial ever preached. In Germany the Nazis claim to object only to what they call "Negative Christianity," claim to approve "Positive Christianity" (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Pastor Niemoller, in perhaps his most controversial sermon, boldly accused the Nazis of taking in this matter today exactly the line the Jews took when Christ was alive...
Teachers are criticized for not attempting to make their courses as interesting and stimulating as they might be. Grow-faculty disinterestedness. The Darting student apathy can be traced to this mouth summarizes the undergraduate attitude to studies as a "game the object of which is to see how little you can make the teacher think you are capable of leaning...