Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renoir's Venus Victorieuse: 40 million Frenchmen have read, with relief, that the monstrosity pictured in TIME, Oct. 12, is now safely in the good city of Portland, Ore. We, the people of France, do not object to gay, young "bronze creatures" romping around our lawns, as long as they are graceful and lithe of limb. But the heavy, rotund and adipose lady was a clear case for a severe reducing diet and Turkish baths...
...Fritz Zernike, 65, of Groningen, The Netherlands, won the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the phase contrast microscope. Ordinary microscopes work by shooting light through the objects to be examined. If some of the light is absorbed or reflected, the object shows up as a dark area against a bright background. The trouble is that many microscopic things, especially living cells and organisms, are almost perfectly transparent. Unless they are stained, which generally kills them, they do not show up well...
Yard proctors were not disturbed by the roistering, however. Head Yard Proctor Frank yam said last night that "blowing off steam this way is natural and we don't object to anyone's having a good time. When a riot can lead to property damage or injury we have the responsibility of stopping...
...billion pictures this year) would drown the loudest thunder, and the combined light from his flashbulbs (he is using 500 million) would make a major planet pale. The sun to him is chiefly a source of light that often calls for a yellow filter, and the moon merely an object which it is hard to photograph without a tripod: he approaches the highest peaks through a telephoto lens, scans new horizons through his range finder-and if he ever came across the Blue Bird, he would whip out his color chart...
...ensuing campaign Plan E was the object of charge and counter-charge. "Communistic," cried the politicians, "dictatorial." When the local Communist party came out against this new plan the politicians were forced to change their line of attack. It was the deceitful and covert means, they said, whereby the "Harvard-Brattle Street-Money-Taxpayer-Republican" forces hoped to regain control of the city. The battle even featured a resolution by the City Council that Harvard be expelled from Cambridge and incorporated as a university city...