Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nibblers. Considering the record of dissents, it was curious that the justices had not been in the headlines oftener than they were. The answer was that their arguments were largely intramural; they had not got in spectacular knockdown fights with other branches of Government, as for example, had their predecessors, the Nine Old Men. That court, dominated by McReynolds, Van Devanter, Sutherland and Butler, defiantly stood against a social revolution. This court was part of the revolution...
Although Cripps will not state it publicly, the British case against devaluation at this time is a tough one to answer. It runs like this...
...Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain conclusions drawn from facts, "but I did not know she planned to ban it entirely." Said she: "It's my own affair and I do not wish to answer questions about...
Alumnus Frank B. Ober, a Maryland lawyer, had written to propose that "practical steps" be taken to eliminate "disloyal teachers." By their extracurricular pronouncements, said Ober, such men as Astronomer Harlow Shapley were giving "aid and comfort to Communism." The university's answer: "Harvard is not afraid of freedom . . . Teachers have rights as citizens to speak and write as men of independence . . . There will be no harassment of professors...
...that is sure to be "unsatisfactory?" Should they, by prolonging life, place a crushing burden on the patient's family? Should they, in desperate cases when everything else has been tried, use a drug so dangerous that it may kill the patient immediately? Such questions have no single answer. The doctors decide each case separately, considering such matters as the painfulness of the treatment and the patient's chance for happiness during his possible remission...