Word: deem
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...Model Penal Code, covering sex and other offenses, which state legislatures can use as a guide. In explaining their approach to sex laws, the code's drafters said: "The code does not attempt to use the power of the state to enforce purely moral or religious standards. We deem it inappropriate for the Government to attempt to control behavior that has no substantial significance except as to the morality of the actor. Such matters are best left to religious, educational and other influences." By a heavy majority, the lawyers agreed that adultery should not be a statutory crime. Sodomy...
...Until this day I have kept silence on the subject of Pearl Harbor," writes Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 72. "Now, however, I deem it my duty to speak out.'' In testimony at inquiries, Kimmel previously implied that Washington kept vital information from him before the Japanese struck at his fleet. Books by his partisans have done the same. Now Kimmel makes the direct charge for the first time: "This lack of action on the part of both the War and Navy Departments must have been in accordance with high political direction...
...estate of Sanford H. E. Freund '01, LL.B. '03, estimated at $75,00, will go to the University, to be used by the President and Fellows for specific prizes and any other uses they deem appropriate, it was announced yesterday...
...County Farm Bureau attacked Mitchell and appointed a committee of three to see the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, at which Mitchell is chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics with instructions to try to muzzle the wayward professor and to "take any further action they deem advisable...
Baseball fans have a simple faith: they worship winners. They also deem it their solemn duty to give advice to losers. In Chicago last week, looking at the American League statistics, Investor Arnold Johnson found the Philadelphia Athletics limping along with one foot in the cellar, and was ready to give them the word. "Nothing wrong that a few million dollars won't cure," said Johnson, vice chairman of Automatic Canteen Co. of America. His proposal: shift the franchise to Kansas City, Mo., where Johnson happens to own the only big baseball stadium in town. He is willing...