Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the veterans have been shunted off to seats on the bench to make room for a building process for the future, but some of them are apt to break into the lineup in crucial league games if the Sophomores do not come up to expectations. Junior center Homer Peabody is the most valuable letterman, but a pulled knee ligament threatens to keep him out of action for much of the season...
...salute the big flag, then began their lessons While primer pupils went to play with dolls in the "play corner" and other pupils busied themselves with books, Miss Campbell announced: "First grade reading. Five tots marched to the front of the room, seated themselves on a long recitation bench. There Miss Campbell gave them a Christmas story to read in an Elson-Gray reader, sent them back to their seats with work books, in which they had to cross out lines that made no sense, paste appropriate objects on a Christmas tree...
...Pierce Butler, who died one day last week, just before dawn. With this 220-lb., 6-foot-2-inch monolith died the last hopes of those who believe that the frost is getting through the seams of the U. S. Constitution. With four New Dealers on the Supreme Court bench and a fifth to take Pierce Butler's place, snowy-whiskered Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes will no longer control the balance of power...
...Judge Walter C. Lindley took his seat on the bench and the jury of farmers and merchants stumbled into the box. The 17 sat ramrod-straight as the farmer-foreman handed up the verdict. The clerk began to read: General Motors Corporation, guilty; General Motors Sales Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation of Indiana, guilty. He began the list of individual defendants: Alfred P. Sloan, William S. Knudsen, M. E. Coyle. . . . Over the faces of the defendants fell a dark shadow. The maximum penalty for the conspiracy as charged was a fine...
...recent appointees of that court has expressly said that the court has been reconstructed and the fair implication, as I read it, is that precedents may be of little avail, and their lack no bar. I must confess that at the end of 17 years on the bench I find less certainty in the law today than at any time. . . . The question of law is one which it seems to me that a trial judge in the present conditions and the present environment . . . should not condemn...