Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order and he was forced to sit next to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister made a short speech of welcome, appealed to the Premiers to join in deliberating on the reconstruction of Canada's Constitution and taxation system. Mitch was the first to reply. He read a brief which not only rejected the report but insulted its authors as well. To him the report was a well-cooked nefarious deal" to get provincial debts taken over by the Dominion Government to the profit of provincial bondholders-something the report guarded against by recommending a capital-gains...
Like the Gettysburg Address, President Roosevelt's Third Inaugural was brief, simple, non-demagogic. Perhaps, too, like Lincoln's remarks, it will be long remembered-its measured cadences applauded by later generations, as if in rebuke to Monday's undemonstrative throngs...
...fictional situation is utilized in the Ames Competition cases to test legal situations which have not yet been passed on directly by the regular courts. Decision is reached on trial technique and merits of the brief, not on the law of the case, since this may subsequently come before the judges in the regular courts...
Only a half-hour in reaching its decision, the Court gave special mention to the trial work of Geismer, who was Attorney for the Respondent, the Steel Mill. An exceptional brief by the Scott Club, written by six others besides Richardson and McMillen, helped to earn them a unanimous decision...
...laboratory. Last week Drs. Joseph Kaplan and S. M. Ruben of U. C. L. A. told how they brought the auroral colors down to earth. They put gas molecules in a tube, stirred them up with a high-frequency discharge, then snapped off the current with extreme suddenness. The brief afterglow of the gases they caught in a spectroscope. They found the colors to be not only those of excited oxygen and nitrogen, the most plentiful components of the air, but also of helium, which makes up only .0005% of the atmosphere and is exceeded in scarcity only by xenon...