Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Partial object of mining in or near an enemy's channels is to fill them with wreckage that will menace other ships. Last week on the British east coast, three small British ships ran fatally afoul of the sunken Canada...
...Nazi nervousness lest a revolution or coup d'etat be attempted by Germans to secure a new Government-possibly monarchist-with which Great Britain and France would be willing to make a quick peace on favorable terms. Scions of the Habsburg and Metternich houses were mentioned as the object of active German intrigue and Adolf Hitler was said to have summoned former German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm for a conference at the Chancellery which became highly emotional...
...Capone, freed after seven years and six months in California's Alcatraz and Terminal Island Prisons, was whisked across the continent by Federal Agents to Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital in order to be given malaria. Object: a fever cure of his paresis under the care of Dr. Joseph E. Moore, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine instructor in syphilology...
...what's in a scrap of paper?" as she did last time, Germany's reasoning would be that, by submitting to the British "tyranny on the seas," Belgium and The Netherlands were, in effect, no longer neutrals but had really become British-dominated territory-hence, a proper object of attack...
...main tenet of "Futurism" is that all connotations of an idea or object must be presented with that object in a work of art. Spatial and temporal continuity is entirely neglected by the Futurist. If, for example, he wishes to portray a sick person, he will place in his painting the images and distorted ideas which pass through the mind of an individual who is ill; Fear will be hovering above the person's head and the bed upon which he is resting might be transformed into the automobile he was driving when an accident occurred. All elements of natural...