Word: objectore
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...British public apparently wanted a statue of Douglas Haig, Field Marshal, and no nonsense. This did not look like Lord Haig, it did not look like his horse. To the expert eyes of letters-to-the-Times writers, it did not look like a horse at all. Loudest objector was Lady Haig who found that Sculptor Hardiman had made her husband "much...
Wrote His Grace the Duke of Portland, twice Master of the Horse under Queen Victoria: "The thing is a stargazing, ewe-necked thoroughbred." British Horseman G. G. Cross gave it as his opinion that it was "a cross between a giraffe and a four-legged ostrich." Loudest objector was Lieut-Colonel Maxwell Fielding McTaggart, author of numerous books on equitation, who for the past three years has been carrying on a bitter dispute in British newspapers and illustrated weeklies with a fellow horse-author, Lieut-Colonel S. G. Goldschmidt, on the proper method of jumping a fence.* Last week...
...University that promotes knowledge only for cash utility accepts this typical modern imposition. The difficulty arises when nonfactual culture is demanded together with a participation in a highly factual world. It appears that the experimental educators demand the rather difficult compromise of being both a combatant and a conscientious objector...
...intact has finally taken place. The machinery has been installed and Cerberus is at the gate. For Harvard's light-fingered and absent-minded the inscription on the high facade reads: "Lose all hope who enter here." The open season for books is no more. Even should the conscientious objector escape through a back window and, disguised as a bricklayer, lose himself in the traffic of Massachusetts Avenue, the fear of the law would haunt his sleep, the imaginary hand, would forever be reaching for his shoulder...
...Greek started the fight, taxed Cuba with being the sole objector to unanimous adoption of the World Court's so-called "Revision Protocol."? Already 24 League states have ratified the change. Indignantly M. Politis rose to declare that "a great effort of international goodwill has been made by all save one state. . . . Though it may not be fitting to criticize that state, does not this most unusual situation require some explanation...