Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every branch of philosophy and theology. Logic was our master and the syllogism our instrument." He was entranced by the church's scholastic system of theology, "glittering and shapely as a machine." Scholastic theology's two fundamentals, says Witcutt, are the Abstract Idea (the essence of every object is comprehensible only to the mind, which is immaterial, spiritual and immortal) and the Beatific Vision ("the plunge of the soul into the Divine...
From the "talebearer" condemned in Ecclesiastes to the "stool-pigeon" villain of the modern-day comic book, the informer has traditionally been the object of peculiar contempt on the part of his fellow citizens. Perhaps this hatred of the man who betrays his fellows has reached its height in the United States--from childhood on, almost every. American absorbs a dread of "tattling". The emotion has become deeply ingrained in our society...
...time they sleep safely shut in their shells, sometimes sealed into them with a membrane of dried mucus. Their senses of touch and smell are acute, but the little eyes on the ends of their tentacles are not efficient; they must be moved very close to an object before the snail really sees...
...South Africa's Lower House of Parliament passed the second (and decisive) reading of Prime Minister Johannes Strydom's bill to pack the Senate as he has already packed the judiciary (TIME, May 9). Object of the bill: to give Strydom's Boer Nationalists the two thirds majority they need in a joint ses sion of Parliament to override the South African constitution...
...oppose the use of the land for new faculty housing," another signer of the resolution said, "but we do object to the congestion that would be caused when hundreds of small children are thrown into a small and cramped area...