Word: courting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee on arrangements for the Harvard-Yale debate have just received from New Haven the subject for the next debate. It reads: "Resolved, That a permanent court of Arbitration should be established by the United States and Great Britain." Harvard has the choice of side, which will probably be left to the three Harvard representatives who will be chosen at a trial debate to be held sometime about the middle of March...
...June 28, 1762, Catherine II was proclaimed empress. No monarch ever cared so much for contemporary opinion. She carried on correspondences with Voltaire and other great writers, in this way spreading her fame throughout Europe. As a natural result the French had great influence at court; but they lost their power after the time of Napoleon and a distinct Russian influence arose. The empress now became the centre of a circle of poets who celebrated her deeds in verse...
John Lowell, 1760, Chief Justice, U. S. Circuit Court...
Joseph Story, 1798, Justice, Supreme Court, United States...
...graduated with the class of 1840 in his nineteenth year. He then entered the Law School from which he graduated in 1845. He began practice in Boston and won a reputation in mercantile insurance and railroad litigation. He had an extended practice before the United States supreme court and in the celebrated Credit-Mobilier case, as counsel for the defendant, he successfully opposed the claim of the national government to recover millions of dollars from the Union Pacific Railroad...