Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gloried in the weight of the white man's burden. Even on the dark side of the color line which galled the three Africans aboard, there was no brotherhood. To Mr. O. K. Chibude, a leftist civil servant on the make, native Missionary Josiah Selwyn was a timid object of contempt. Lij Makonnen despised them both...
...image of the object to be photographed is first focused on a glass plate covered with an antimony and cesium compound, which gives off electrons when struck by light. At every point in the image electrons are knocked loose. Off to a slow start, they are whisked away at tremendous speeds by a powerful electric field. Then they are focused by a magnetic lens (as in an electron microscope) to form a new image on a photographic plate. The speeded-up electrons have taken energy from the electric field and form an image about 100 times stronger than the original...
Portuguese Eisenhower. Its methods are far removed from ordinary U.S. language teaching. "The one word I object to around here," says Colonel Charles Barnwell, the C.O., "is grammar. We don't burden the student with masses of rules and exceptions. Our big ambition is to make a man speak and understand." The speaking begins right in the first class. "Are you a student?" a Danish instructor will demand. "Ja, jeg er elev" [Yes, I am a student], the class must learn to answer. "Is he a student?" asks the instructor. "Ja, han er ogsaa." A class may consist...
...Church of England is the world's most notable balance of two separate traditions: Catholic and Protestant. Now & again, the balance is strained. Latest symptom: high-church Anglo-Catholics, who object to being called Protestants, have been bucking hard at all suggestions of closer cooperation with Britain's Protestant "Free Churches" (Methodists, Congregationalists...
...congestion; in Elgin, Scotland. He emerged from self-chosen anonymity 'in 1949, when an alert newsman discovered that it was Besse who had given Oxford ?1,500,000-biggest gift from a foreigner, second largest in modern times-to set up a new college, St. Antony's. Object : to foster Anglo-French relations and further the characteristic he admired most in Oxonians-"grit...