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Word: agente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free society a man can have no duty which is not consonant with the respect which is due him as a moral agent. We can demand only what we can demand morally. Thus we cannot ask a man to give his life, for such an obligation cannot be defined. But we can ask a man to risk his life. And we do in time of war. Similarly, we cannot ask a man to establish his own guilt. But we can ask that he risk trial. And we can ask an innocent man to risk judicial error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRISWOLD SPEECH DISCUSSED | 2/18/1954 | See Source »

...best we can say, then, is that the Fifth Amendment establishes a principle defining explicitly the limits within which the law can make a demand on a guilty man consonant with his dignity as a free agent; and that our system of trials, investigations, provision for appeal and redress, etc. must be constantly revised to make justice more common and injustice more easily rectified. Robert E. Gahringer (Ph.D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRISWOLD SPEECH DISCUSSED | 2/18/1954 | See Source »

Producer Wanger's interest in prison reform grew out of personal experience: in 1952 he served 98 days of a four-month sentence in Los Angeles County Honor Farm for shooting an actor's agent whom Wanger suspected of having an unprofessional interest in Mrs. Wanger (Cinemactress Joan Bennett). His life in prison jolted him into a strong, new social consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Syrian politicos decided not to wait to practice freedom. Red-led university students battled his police and shouted: "Down with Shishekly, agent of foreign imperialism!" The Bar Association, in co operation with the Reds, organized strikes in the cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Democracy Must Wait | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

First essential was pure uranium, so the central planning group concentrated on a uranium refinery. Built quickly at Salwick in Lancashire, it did not use the U.S. process of purifying uranium by precipitating it from a solution. The British developed their own process, which uses ether as the separating agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: British Smyth Report | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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