Word: objections
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Bear to Pear. In determining a child's readiness to read, the teacher must make sure not only of his eye, but also of his ear. Thus, the pupil may be given a series of pictures and asked to circle the object that the teacher names. If he mistakes a comb for a cone or a bear for a pear, he is obviously on his way to mistaking "institute for "introduce." In another series of pictures, the teacher may try to put across certain abstract concepts. A pupil will be asked to draw a ball beside, under or above...
...atoms disintegrate in that time. So when a plant or animal dies and ceases to take up fresh carbon 14, the radioactivity of its substance should decline with the passage of time. If the decline can be measured accurately, it will tell the age of the carbon-bearing object, whether it is an Egyptian mummy or an Ice-Age peat...
...Mulligan, to discuss the possibility of an R.C.A.-Mulligan contract. Said Ewing: "I endeavored to explain to Mr. Mulligan the problems that we saw in the situation ... He said that he was no lawyer and he did not want to get into that with me. He asked if I objected if he called Secretary Talbott. I said I did not object...
Behind the wall of secrecy that surrounds the guided-missile program, rockets have been developing rapidly (TIME, May 30 et seq.). Scientists in a position to know believe that some of them are powerful enough to raise an object weighing 50 to 100 Ibs. above most of the atmosphere (about 200 miles up) and set it revolving around the earth at 18,000 m.p.h. Supported by this speed, it will not fall, any more than the moon does. It will circle the earth every 90 minutes, until the slight resistance of the fringe of the atmosphere makes it slow down...
Illustrating his procedure by picking up a candlestick, Rorimer demonstrates the connoisseur's approach: "My first question would be,-'What did this candlestick really look like originally?' I developed such a passion for cleaning art objects that museum people use to call me 'Mr. Sapolio.' Then I'd ask, 'How did it look in its original setting?' I'd try to reconstruct the setting in my mind. Now in a museum you can actually give some idea of the original setting - not much, but some. For instance, some doors...