Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm of Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge and Rugg will assist Church lawyers in presenting their interpretation of a provision in the State Zoning Enabling Act which prevents local communities from enacting zoning laws limiting religious and educational institutions...
...case to establish the precedent of whether communities are prohibited from making laws restricting the construction of any building of such an institution, or whether, in addition, they cannot limit its size. The University, bearing in mind its own extensive construction program, supports the broader interpretation of the Act...
...Fair Labor Standards Act's 40-hour work week exempts retailing...
...ironically different from the "good will" that was its original goal. His ordeal showed that international Communists had invaded the hemisphere with a vengeance and were capable of precise, cold-war operations in South America. It also showed that they were capable of spitting on a woman, an act that would cost them heavily in a continent that prizes manners. Latin Americans got a lesson in the excesses of nationalism. And for the U.S., there could no longer be illusions, complacency or high-level brushoff in U.S.Latin American relations...
...clap of Puritanism"), John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mark Twain. The latter's revulsion at the concept of polygamy melted at his first sight of the "poor, ungainly and pathetically 'homely' creatures" that were the Mormon wives. "No," Twain wrote, "--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries sixty of them has done a deed of open-handed generosity so sublime that the nations would stand uncovered in his presence and worship in silence...