Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George III meant by "coast" the Privy Council turned to the first great English dictionary, work of that inspired if pompous king of 18th Century letters, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Once George III encountered the great Doctor in the Royal Library, and very considerately shouted in his ear during a brief audience, knowing him to be deaf. The Privy Council cited the dictionary of Dr. Johnson as defining what George III meant by "coast" as follows: "The edge or margin of land next to the sea [and also], a considerable tract of land bounded by and looking towards...
...brief, Princeton has the New Jersey countryside, and Yale has Savin Rock, but Harvard has only Back Pay--and Brattle Hall. Each has its advantages, and they differ. Mr. Farrar is only carning at the inevitable...
...volume entitled "New England's First Fruits", published in London in 1643, an article on Harvard College, the College being evidently numbered among New England's "first fruits", a brief description of the University and a list of the "Rules and Precepts that are observed in the College" appeared...
Professor Pope will give a brief history of the club and outline its activities. He has long been associated with the work of the Dramatic Club, as a member of the Advisory Committee. Professor Pope has helped choose its plays and design the sets...
Dissenting Opinion. Associate Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Sanford and Stone dissented. With brief eloquence Mr. Holmes, 86,* wrote: "We fear to grant power and are unwilling to recognize it when it exists. . . . The truth seems to me to be that, subject to compensation when compensation is due, the legislature may forbid or restrict any business when it has a sufficient force of public opinion behind it. Lotteries were thought useful adjuncts of the State a century or so ago; now they are believed to be immoral and they have been stopped. Wine has been thought good for man from the time...