Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anyone should begrudge Negroes the very small amount of honorable mention they receive. If a Negro is entitled to have his name appear in TIME, he is at the same time entitled to be referred to as "Mr.," and why any fair-minded man should object is beyond...
...here a rich asortment of cod heads raining down; there a herring, another, a shoal of flying herrings long since removed from the sea. Fogs of soot darkened the scene and a blizzard of meal. Scraping fish omelet from their eyes, the partisans closed in ardent wrestling bouts, the object being to keep your opponent from getting to the polling booth-if necessary, to cripple him. Four students were carried to the hospital...
...particular object for which this corporation is formed is as follows: To abolish the belief in God together with all forms of religion based on that belief. In prosecuting its work, which shall be purely destructive, a radio station shall be erected for the delivery and broadcasting of lectures, debates and discussions on the subjects of science and religion, and it shall publish and distribute scientific and anti-religious literature and conduct a general propaganda against the church and the clergy...
...even this powerful means of communion of the stage with the spectators is limited in its potency. . . In a whole series of dramas, classic as well as modern, the feeling of terror is sometimes suggested to the spectator, not only by word and mimicry, but by the very object of his terror, for instance, the ghost, or some other object of hallucination. The object of the dramatist here is clear; in order that the spectator may have at a given moment nearly the same experience as the acting character, it is necessary that he see the same thing...
...primary object of the Harvard University Band is to furnish suitable music during intervals in the football games and to encourage the singing of Harvard songs by the student body. At the more important games we offer more elaborate programs in preparing letter formations and in playing the songs of the visiting college whenever possible...