Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which I object appears to transfer to state legislatures and to officials appointed by partisan governors a responsibility which has constitutionally resided in non-political quarters," he wrote. The State Commissioner of Education returned Mather's oath, and Mather was faced with the alternative of taking the oath or resigning from the University. He signed the oath, and the controversy ended...
...course, based partly on considerations of prestige and of grandeur, but perhaps we can discern more mundane military reasoning involved. Once the French have put their name on the label, I surmise that de Gaulle will quietly "Europeanize" the bomb project, and bring in German technicians. The object of these efforts would be to increase the Continent's nuclear power to the point where it could annihilate the U.S.S.R. Then the block would have won its freedom both from fear of Russia, and from dependence on the United States for protection. In a race of intelligence, the Continent, though...
Size Is No Object...
...stubborn idealist who was often destitute and at least once excommunicated, Miguel de Cervantes was in and out of jail as he worked on Spain's greatest classic, Don Quixote, published in 1605. Like his creator, Don Quixote was the object of ridicule. He charged giants that turned out to be windmills, fought armies that were flocks of sheep, worshiped the purity of a peasant wench who was gifted at salting pork. But in humanism's world of reason, Don Quixote's crime was not his madness but his faith. So is it in today...
...Since the object of those who operate the source is to find a newly evolved society, we may presume that the channel used will be one that places a minimum burden of frequency and angular discrimination on the detector . . . The wide radio band from, say 1 mc to 10,000 mc, remains as the rational choice. For indisputable identification as artificial, one signal might contain, for example, a sequence of small prime numbers of pulses, or simple arithmetical sums...