Word: corpus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hauptmann's counsel precipitated what amounted to a pre-hearing of the murder trial evidence when he obtained a writ of habeas corpus. During hearings on this action in the New York courts, last week Mrs. Hauptmann did her loyal best to alibi her stolid husband for the night of March 1, 1932. She was not very successful. More promising was the testimony of a construction boss on a Manhattan apartment building who said Hauptmann was working for him until 5 p. m. on the fatal day. The crime took place 60 mi. away at Hopewell...
...Thomas J. Mooney's long fight for freedom was advanced today when the U. S. Supreme Court granted permission to his attorneys to file a petition for an original writ of habeas corpus...
...Justice's desk lay Mrs. Vanderbilt's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Whitney to surrender Gloria. Week before, charged Mrs. Vanderbilt, "The child said she wanted to go to Central Park with her nurse to feed the pigeons. . . . Shortly thereafter she was spirited out of the house by said nurse, Emma Keislich, without being brought back to your petitioner to say goodby. . . . The nurse took the infant to Mrs. Whitney's home and the infant has been confined and detained there ever since against the will and consent of your petitioner...
When Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was rattling his sabre under the tremulous nose of France, a German professor stuck his finger into the dead corpus of the Sanskrit language and pulled out a word that was to kindle the fires of scientific controversy for many a long year to come. The word that Friedrich Maximilian Muller introduced to the Western world was Aryan, which in Sanskrit means nothing more than "noble...
...Church and provided for full Catholic education of Catholic children. But Hitler let his young hotheads flout the Concordat to such an extent that by last month it had broken down completely. Though he took candle in hand and marched devoutly in one of the many well-attended Corpus Christi parades last month, Vice Chancellor von Papen seemed no longer persona grata to the Church. On his last visit to Rome the Pope did not deign to receive...