Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solicitor General put Stanley Reed in the first line of the New Deal's legal defense at a critical moment. The Solicitor General's job is to decide what cases should be appealed to the Supreme Court and to represent the Government in person before that august bench. Solicitor General J. Crawford Biggs re-signed last month after many New Dealers had decided that he was not making the best of the Administration's defense (TIME. March 25). Mr. Reed, taking office, understood well enough that he was expected to do better. But he was hardly settled...
...dealing realistically with scenes of everyday life. That was all the 171 exhibits in the Whitney Museum had in common. Emotionally pictures varied from the sentimental Girl and Pets, by the mid-Victorian Eastman Johnson, to a blunt garish study of U. S. sailors tousling trollops on a park bench, painted in 1933 by Paul Cadmus (TIME, April 30; May 28). The New York American's venerable Critic Malcolm Vaughan was so pleased by all he saw that he wrote...
...Justice Talbot popped his head over the bench to interpose...
...carbon does not liquefy but sublimes directly from a solid to a vapor as dry ice does. The sublimation point is a fundamental constant of the element and represents the maximum arc temperature. Determining this constant within narrow limits provides, according to Dr. Chaney, "a convenient and much needed bench mark for all high temperature measurements." It is of help especially to makers of abrasives, artificial gems, fine tools, fine steel for armor plate...
...their recent hot debate on the abuse of clapping the King's subjects into jail for debt (TIME, March 11) crowned last week by a remarkable circular letter to British magistrates from Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour, who urged greater leniency from the bench toward debtors unable...