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...DeLone (Harvard) def. Callen (Virginia), 6-3, 6-2; 2. Schofield (V) def. Elmuts (H), 6-2, 6-4; 3. Cooper (H) def. Kerr (V), 7-5, 1-6, 6-1; 4. Parker (H) def. Holden (V), 6-1, 6-4; 5. D'Angio (V) def. Harris (H), 6-4, 6-1; 6. Kepler (V) def. Passent...
Words of Latin and French derivation referring to the sex act and bodily organs are acceptable in English. Bloomfield testified, but words of Angio-Saxon origin with identical meanings are tabu. He also said that certain words common to lower social classes are slowly becoming more acceptable in modern literature...
...general consent, Oliver Wendell Holmes will be ranked high among the ten greatest judges in American judicial history. Indeed, he is recognized throughout the English-speaking world as one of a handful of leaders in Angio-American law. We commonly hear of him as a great dissenter. But in his career of half a century on the bench, he left his mark on every part of the law. Moreover, his dissenting opinions on questions of the reasonableness of legislation are proving starting points for constructive reasoning, and he is likely to be counted a maker of the bill of rights...
...Mexico lies far deeper; it is the total lack of any strong tradition to use as a cornerstone in building up a government, English speaking peoples have established themselves into strong, firmly-knit nations all over the world, and the underlying secret of their success has been the Angio-Saxon tradition of the common law, as deeply ingrained as the English stock itself. Germans have held together through common inheritance of the agelong tradition of loyalty to the chief, handed down from the wandering tribes of the "Germania" in Tacitus's day. France, shaken by revolutions half a dozen times...
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