Word: objection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purchase of foreign silver. Congress proposed to end this practice and the Administration did not seriously object...
...Potiorek was pointing out some new barracks to the Archduke and his wife. The passengers did not see wild-eyed young Chabrinovitch take a small bomb from his pocket and knock off its cap against a post. But the chauffeur noticed and stepped on the gas. A small black object hurtled through the air, struck the rear of the car, fell spinning to the street. Then with a roar and a flash the bomb exploded. Several bystanders were injured. The Archduke's aide, riding in the third car, was badly wounded. The time was about...
...bowling-alley habitues, lawn bowls is a good summer substitute. Played with a 31-lb., lignum-vitae ball (weighted on one side to give it bias), the object of the game is to throw the ball (called "bowl") down a narrow green to land as close as possible to a previously thrown white ball (called "jack"). Although most good lawn bowlers play at clubs where velvet smooth greens have been coddled for years, many a rip-roaring bowling match has taken place on a private lawn. Scoring is similar to that of horseshoes. Sets (four pairs of bowls...
This year the House, through an advisory committee which included ten D. C. citizens and officials, overhauled the District's tax structure with the object of making the District selfsupporting. Last week when the new D. C. tax bill appeared before the House, it was found to contain...
...each, sold at $200 to $225. Well-grounded in military tactics, well-acquainted with soldiering men, rumpled, Kentucky-born Colonel Marcellus Thompson sees the day near when there will be a Thompson in every infantry squad, a chopper or two in every armored car. Pacifists still object to war, but few of them still object to arming against it. Old General Thompson, living among his memories in the modest home of his son at Great Neck, L. I., will have some advice to give as an unofficial technical consultant. At 80, he thinks his knowledge may come in handy...