Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prospect are the following: "Vicarious Admissions" by Professor E. M. Morgan '02, an important contribution to the law of Evidence; an article by a well known New York corporation lawyer on the liabilities of a trustee under a corporate trust indenture; a discussion of multiple incorporation and the conflict of laws. "The Higher Law Background of American Constitutional Law", by E. S. Corwin; a valuable critique of some phases of present federal equity practice, as well as articles by Dean Roscoe Pound, Professors Zecharian Chafee and F. B. Sayre and other noted professors of law and active members...
Senator Borah's answer, in far-away-Tennessee and Kentucky, was to point at Nominee Robinson as an enemy of the protective tariff and to distinguish a conflict between Nominee Smith's and Nominee Robinson's pre-campaign attitudes on water power...
Since the last quadrennial conflict, the censure of the public, and in some cases the Senatorial axe, has been the lot of the victor on whose laurels a golden tint predominated. Contributions clinked merrily into the coffers, rarely receiving the close attentions of other than minor attaches, until public sentiment has at last placed the receipt of money as well as its expenditure in the realm of the executive. No longer will the eye of leadership unswervingly be fixed upon the combat-it must often revert to the ammunition...
...famed "StoneCutters Case"-the Journeymen Stone-Cutters' Association of North America v. the U. S.-to determine the validity of court injunctions brought in conflict with union regulations...
Intricate and difficult is counterpoint-"the art of adding melodies, according to fixed rules, as accompaniment to a given melody." If Author Huxley's "given melody" is perhaps the conflict between passion and reason, it is outnoised by his myriad irrelevant themes. If he has any "fixed rules," they are well camouflaged in a medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills...