Word: deviationism
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In an after dinner address last week Dean Pound of the Law School traced the evolution of the United States common law judge from his English derivation to his present day status of an umpire on the bench. His remarks emphasized one of the most significant trends of American polity...
"God is unchanging and could not have permitted this deviation from the established custom," explained one Paul Feil, Mormon, arraigned in Salt Lake City municipal court last week for disturbing the peace.
In Italy, digging went forward as never before. Rome needs a subway. The tracks will run about on the level of the city of the Caesars. Archaeologists will watch over the shoulders of blasters, pickers and sandhogs to recover relics, having authority to order deviation from the engineers' surveys...
The whole affair or both affairs resolve themselves into expressions of that youthful indiscretion which can be so charming and can be so damnable. College is supposed to keep the charm and erase the damnation. So the fact that Yale offers in true sportsmanship to place another crew on the...
Yet, after all, this is but one more deviation from that norm which some would like to maintain under the name of truth. The American Mercury will never cure Mr. Babbitt nor will Mr. Babbitt cure the American Mercury of incipient megalomania. Both are facets of the uncut diamond which...