Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomson, it is important that they be brought to our attention. When there is enough smoke to arouse action in the Harvard Student Council, the Dean's Office, and seven spokesmen for undergraduate organizations, there must be a fire somewhere. And I do not see how anyone could object to the CRIMSON'S having an editorial opinion on it. When the day comes that the CRIMSON makes "any pretense of being an 'impartial observer' of the Harvard scene," I, for one, shall let my subscription lapse. Jos. F. Fletcher...
...plastic and evaporates part of the oil film, making it locally thinner. When light is turned on the oil film, it glows in the bright "interference" colors of an oil slick floating on water. The colors have nothing to do with the real colors in visible light of the object that Eva is viewing. They show thin or thick parts of the oil film-and therefore outline the object by its temperature. Hot parts show in one color, cool parts in another. Eva can distinguish 1° differences in temperature...
Coffee-vending machines have also had a spectacular postwar boom, particularly in big offices and plants where workers take staggered coffee breaks. Though many workers still object to the taste of coin-machine brews, a Dallas company recently started selling a $2,000 machine that stores fresh coffee at 185° in heated Thermos jugs. The dispenser is so successful that Mobile Kitchens, Inc. installed 62 in Washington, D.C. last year, and is putting in new machines at the rate...
Thank God for your two statements: "The path of interposition leads in a direction that sober Southerners faced with aching hearts" and "No doubt, there is a better answer than Civil War II . . ." Perhaps, closer and closer draws the second Fort Sumter and the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. As for myself, a Southerner of 33, my reserve officer's uniform will always be olive drab, and never grey...
...object of drama were pure obscurity, Hugh Amory's The Bandeirantes could unquestionably be considered a modern masterpiece. The confusion in which the play wallows is due mostly to the language in which it was written. That language is English to be sure, but it is a political English filled with wild, though sometimes provocative images. I suppose the poet must have exercised some control over his imagery, and that he must have wanted to squeeze some concentrated extract of meaning out of his story when he decided to employ the type of speech he used. But his efforts were...