Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already promised a change in AEC's handling of federal scholarships (TIME, May 30). As the inquisition went on, he also admitted that the Argonne Laboratory's delay in reporting the loss of a quantity of uranium 235 was "a substantial error ... I don't object to the chairman of the commission being given hell...
...object of penny-pitching is, like in most competitive contests, to win. This is done by prepelling a penny through the air and/or along the pavement in such a manner that the coin comes to rest closer to a wall (at which the competitors are presumably aiming) than the coppers thrown by the other contestants...
...rounded up five of their Sunday-school class, drove into the mountains near Bly, Ore. for a day's fishing. Luck was bad at first and Mitchell walked back for the car. Returning, he saw the rest of the party gathered in a semicircle, curiously examining a mysterious object they had discovered in the woods. The kids had stumbled upon one of the 9,000 balloon bombs launched from Japan against the U.S. West Coast...
...dissenting teachers on the Queens faculty were soon the object of much attention. On May 3, James A. Roe and Frank Kenna, respectively the local Democratic and Republican leaders, asked an investigation of the faculty...
...sixty-fourth season of the Boston Pops, and perhaps that is why the tables are arranged for parties of five. Even 64 years ago it must have been foolish to go to the Pops without a girl, but then you needed a chair for the chaperone. I object to this archaic tradition, because on Monday, which was Harvard Night, a party of six in front of me spent the first part of the program modernizing the system. They were trying to get a chair which was strapped to an adjoining table into an appropriate relationship with their own. They never...