Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Cal Lowenstein on the bench with a bad shoulder, Jordan will rely on his single wing almost exclusively. He has a T formation team with Joe Conzelman at quarterback ready, but a Crimson win must of necessity be fashioned from the single wing running...
Governor Warren cannot possibly have this independence if his every vote, indeed his every question from the bench, is subject to the possibility of inquiry in later committee hearings and floor debates to determine his fitness to continue in judicial office. To say this is in no way to question his integrity as an individual. No judge should be put in such a position. So far as personal attitudes are relevant, the point is not what Governor Warren and his friends will think about his dis-interestedness but what defeated litigants will think, and others who may be disappointed...
...necessity of protecting judges from every kind of extraneous influence on their decisions. The purpose was to make the judges 'as independent as the lot of humanity will permit.' Governor Warren can not possibly have this independence if his every vote, indeed, his every question from the bench, is subject to the possibility of inquiry in later committee hearings and floor debates to determine his fitness to continue in judicial office...
...Stanford, with a bench double that of its "breather" opponent, College of the Pacific, never could plug the leaks in its line and pass defense, trailed through the last three periods to lose...
Careful palates may protest sometimes at Will's beer, for all the pippins bobbing in it, but Will himself, who in grammar school literally had to be tied to his bench, can understandably be pleased with his intellectual achievement...