Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Object Sublime." British business, with over $1,000,000,000 invested in Chinese property, and British sentimentalists for once united in their backing of the underdog in a modern war last week. Lightest touch was delivered by Cartoonist Orr in the Glasgow Daily Record. Referring to numerous statements in the Japanese press that the time had come for China to be "punished," he drew a scene from Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado showing a wretched Chinese coolie, head on block before the Lord High Executioner, while beside him the spectacled Mikado, finger a-wag sings...
...object all sublime...
This week in California a unique law takes effect which amends this state of affairs, permits either side to a trial in a superior or municipal court to object in writing to the judge assigned to try the case. No reason need be given. Automatically the case must be assigned to some other judge. However, only one such peremptory challenge may be filed by each side...
...letters were running about 50-50 on the subject when R. W. Alston whose inquiring mind had profited by the August bank holiday offered a new idea: "Recently I visited the seaside and was flattered to find myself the object of attentive curiosity until I realized that the ladies who met me with arched eyebrows were not surprised or delighted, but merely plucked and therefore incapable of any other expression...
...Object of lawn bowling is to throw the bowl, which is weighted on one end to make it lopsided, down a green 120 ft. long to land as close as possible to a previously thrown white ball or "jack." Major tournament play is between teams consisting of four men-lead, second, third, and skip (captain)-each of whom throws two bowls. An opponent's bowl may be knocked away from the jack or a teammate's may be knocked closer. When all the bowls are played and an "end" is completed, it is scored like horseshoes, the closest...