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Word: objecting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect to W. R. Slaughter; very few expert field shots lead birds but the gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...object was to give every Deputy a chance to speak for at least half a day on the budget clauses particularly interesting to his constituents. It was a grand old system-forensics in the reverberant pork barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tardieu the Tamer | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...object of the triumvirate is not to change the policy of the company but to arrange a method for meeting the obligations incurred by Cineman Fox. Assurance that the affairs of the company will remain in such conservative trustees' hands for five years will make lenders more willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fox Abdication | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing to have behind the false wall of a private vault is the boudoir of your mistress; 2) very mysterious shooting may be accomplished by planning to have the bullets, instead of striking directly, bounce off some such household object as a chandelier, umbrella stand or commode. Playwright Hugh Stanislaus Stange's thriller will appeal to small boys, but perhaps they had better not be allowed to see Miss Florence Johns's harrowing portrayal of a dope fiend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Packed in his five carloads of laboratory material were tons of stalks of a common, ubiquitous weed: goldenrod. Goldenrod, announced Inventor Edison, seemed a likely U. S. weed from which to produce the object of his major research in the past two years: Rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Goldenrod Rubber | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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