Word: crisper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delicate age of the judges that causes this traffic jam. It is another the failure of the judicial framework to keep pace in size and flexibility with the needs of a growing country. Indeed a seventy year old justice can hand down a crisper opinion,--and many a trial lawyer knows it to his pain,--than one of forty, for the very reason that by his years of training in the law he knows the answers...
...look at Harvard. He visited "Copey," who stared at him and said: "Young man, I trust you are not planning to write any sketches." To an impertinent youth who suggested a headline to describe a fire : "Hollis a Holo caust, Copey a Crisp," he countered, "Nonsense ! 'Copey Crisper Than Ever.' " Once Professor Copeland was nearly at a loss. It was discovered that an old Harvard rule permitted the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory to keep a cow in the yard. Young Harvard whooped, dashed out to buy "Copey" a cow, was with difficulty restrained...