Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with Professor Dobie that the coyote is one of the most interesting of animals. He is a natural as a "story-maker." A friend of mine in Colorado saw a coyote trot boldly into his farmyard in broad daylight, whereupon his big collie gave chase, was ambushed by two accomplices of the decoy, and killed by the three of them within 200 yards of the house...
True, they fixed Big Business with a cold and fishy stare. Some patent lawyers were inclined to believe that a patent-holder's case was as good as lost if it ever reached the Supreme Court. The court cracked down on anything that looked like collusive price-fixing. Tax lawyers were chiefly concerned with keeping their cases out of the highest court's hands...
...court had not rushed in to grapple with any great constitutional problems. One of the justices called its course a policy of "self-denial." In the twelve years, only two congressional measures-neither of them major-had been declared unconstitutional. The court merely nibbled around the edges of the big, still unresolved questions, leaving it to time and changing customs to determine the ultimate shape of things. The nibbling was deliberate, and not the result of timidity. Rebuking by implication their immediate predecessors, the present justices insisted that it was Congress' job to legislate, not the court...
Schism in the Court. The general flow of the court's majority opinions was along two main courses. One course was toward increasing tolerance of Government's spreading authority: the Supreme Court was for Big Government...
...appointment of such a person to a teaching position with tenure in any educational institution. But with this single exception which is the unique product of our century, I maintain that a professor's political views, social philosophy or religion are of no concern in the University; nor are big activities within the law as a private citizen. I do not have to remind this audience that this is the traditional Harvard position and will be maintained in the face of whatever criticisms may come. Admittedly a university might be faced with a difficult problem if some member...