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Word: benches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court would as soon appear on the bench in sunsuits as violate the tradition that only the old (35 years), respected Harris & Ewing picture studio can photograph the Court. Last week Harris & Ewing's official, 1940 picture of the U. S. Supreme Court was distributed, showing as usual the Olympians of the U. S. robed in black, steeped in the law, anchored to the verities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Court | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...picture also was testimony to the influence the Court can exert on its own physiognomies. Two and a half years on the bench had molded ripsnorting Hugo LaFayette Black (right, front) into a male personification of Law. Only misfit face in the lot was that of Frank Murphy (right, rear), who looked as ethereally wretched as always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Court | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Edward B. Sheldon '08, honorary chairman, and Hendrik Willem Van Loon '06, chairman, will lead a discussion on "Arts and the Letters." Arthur A. Ballantine '06 is chairman of the group which will deal with "Bench, Bar, and Government," and William A. Neilson G '96, President-emeritus of Smith College, does similarly on "Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI TO GATHER IN NEW YORK OVER MAY 18TH WEEKEND | 4/26/1940 | See Source »

With Bill Tully, regular first sacker, on the bench because of illness, Ed Buckley switched from second and Dick Merrill went in at the keystone sack. Buckley looked good at the plate for the Crimson garnering two for four, but it was his error that let in the winning...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: CRIMSON BATSMEN BOW TO TERRIER SQUAD, 1-0 | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

...angry that for several hours she feels young again, Fanny sails off to Oxford to reassure herself with a Rhodes Scholar who is (or was) her latest adorer. She finds him on a secluded garden bench, given over to love with a pretty girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elizabeth's Autumn Garden | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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