Word: objected
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When Congress decided, in 1851, that the Japanese should be persuaded to open their ports to U. S. trade, old Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry was picked to persuade them. He had spent, as it happened, two long years reading travelers' tales-which convinced him that the whole object of Japanese ceremony was to wring from the opposite party a sense of affectionate inferiority...
...last war, German submarines were ordered not to attack British warships, to save torpedoes for merchantmen. This time this strategy is reversed, with the object of putting such a strain on British naval construction, large and small, that completion of the George Vs may be retarded...
...south. For Rumania was a gainer by the last war. Not only does Russia want back Bessarabia, but Hungary wants back Transylvania, Bulgaria wants back Dobruja-Rumania's northeast, northwest and southern provinces. Security against his Balkan neighbors until after the Red menace is past is the object of King Carol's earnest conversations with Regent Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and of next month's meeting of the Balkan Entente (Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey) over which Rumania's Foreign Minister Gafencu will preside...
...Object of the adoption would be to provide airplanes and anti-aircraft guns. President Kallio was ready to promise that the planes would not operate beyond Finnish borders or against planes or troops engaged in genuine military operations. Said he: "Every attack in which Finns shoot down Russian planes strengthens Finnish sisu...
...genius of the Mayan and Aztec artists cannot be refuted when one brings to mind the finely wrought gold articles, the sensitively constructed miniature animals, and the suitability of the material used for the object created. This early art is sturdy, grotesque, and static. Yet it contains a certain animating power which is so subtly interwoven with the actual material that its effect is tenacious and clinging rather than sudden. There is in it a silent sort of tension which is capable of producing a response within the mind of the spectator, a response which is only communicable by means...