Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line up of the first team in yesterday's practice was: Bingham and Luman, ends; Joss and Root, tackles; Sturhahn and Wortham, guards; Lovejoy, center; Bench, quarterback, and Allen, Cottle and Pend, backs...
...just as easy for a crooked lawyer to get onto the Bench as it is for a crooked clergyman to get into the pulpit or a crooked doctor to get into the practice of medicine or a crooked banker to get into the confidence of his community, and yet the crooked lawyer may be the deciding judge in a divided court...
...were educated in the University of Hard Knocks, and they are just as well qualified to think and vote on such questions of general welfare as the income tax or child slavery or other forms of slavery, as are the men who wear the gown and sit on the bench. It is high time for these critics to learn that this is a representative government and that the laws are to be made by the 531 Congressmen and Senators and not by one President or one Judge...
...have no right to resent and repudiate such a decision as that of our present Supreme Court in its effort to perpetuate child slavery? If there is any special virtue or sanctity in the opinion and oath of 5 of the 9 lawyers who happen to sit on a bench, how much more virtue and sanctity should there be in the Congress opinion and oath of the 350 lawyers and judges who sit in the Congress and Senate of the United States? What body of men on the face of the earth is so well qualified to consider the constitutionality...
...coaches are still unsatisfied with the way the backfield is shaping up. Bench continues at quarterback with Bunnell as his first substitute. Pond and Allen, and Cottle or Failing are the other backs likely to start against Dartmouth. Failing is a punter of the first magnitude and leads the whole squad in this respect, but he lacks experience...