Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students are required to mount and back off a bench for five minutes at a rapid clip. A good many of those who last out the five minutes period have too high a pulse beat at the end and so fail the test. Men are assigned to special exercise classes until they can pass the test with the properly casual pulse beat...
...gone, he banished himself for life to the country. For the next 35 years, at a succession of small houses in the country north of London, he lived in semi-seclusion, an "odd scrambling fellow" in a bright blue coat who pottered amiably about-now mending a bench, now gathering eggs in the hedge-bottoms, now scribbling at a taboret in the greenery...
...hear the Russians tell it, Soviet workers hate to take a day off to rest and play when they could be spending long hours at the lathe, the desk or the work bench. So, "to meet the wishes of the majority of the workers, bearing in mind the many requests received from trade unions," the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet last week ruled that Jan. 22, official Day of Memory for Lenin, will no longer be a day off. The workers, said the Presidium, had "correctly" taken the position "that the holding of a public holiday . . . is not in keeping...
...Douglas' request, 4,570 members of the Chicago Bar Association had voted on Douglas' two recommendations to the Illinois federal bench against the two Harry Truman picked instead (TIME, July 30). The lawyers favored one Douglas choice by 2-to-1 vote, the other by 6 to 1. In another poll, it was the consensus of the northern members of the Illinois Bar Association that one of the Truman men, Joseph Drucker, a municipal court judge and nephew of 85-year-old Congressman Adolph J. Sabath, is not even qualified...
Whatever the explanation, Kentuckian Vinson's aside on morals drew no dissent from his brethren on the supreme bench. And no wonder. The doctrine he pronounced stems straight from the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, philosophical father of the present Supreme Court. In one way or another, it has been voiced by the court many times, notably by Justice Felix Frankfurter, longtime (1914-39) Harvard Law School professor, author of Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court (1939), discoverer, under the New Deal, of scores of bright young men (the Happy Hot Dogs) for top Government positions...