Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general term of the Supreme Court of New York has rendered an important decision establishing the responsibility of railroad companies as public servants...
...began life in New York as a shop assistant, with a university degree. The most efficient of continental mankind, the Prussian, agrees with the Scotchman, and so in theory does the hardest of earthly workers, the Chinese, though his notion of what education is partly puts him out of court. So in our own day and country do all manner of governing men, who say deliberately, and greatly to their own disadvantage, that you get out of the thoroughly educated more efficient tools for all manner of work, including some very rough work - such as military engineering - than...
...would be possible for the paper to print the most scurrilous articles in any columns but those devoted to editorials, and when called upon for satisfaction the editor could calmly disclaim all responsibility on the ground that the article was contributed. Imagine such a plea being advanced in a court-room in a libel case. The editor would be laughed out of court...
...effort is being made to establish a fixed salary for the services of the clerk of the United States Supreme Court. The perquisites of this officer last year under the existing system amounted...
...United States Supreme Court convened yesterday...