Word: donning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fighter & Fight. "Don't call me judge," Felix Frankfurter implored newsmen who stormed his Cambridge home after the appointment, "I'm not confirmed yet." Ten years ago, getting Fighter Frankfurter, defender of Tom Mooney and of Sacco & Vanzetti, by the Senate would have meant a sizable fight. Last...
Mr. Heil's more politically experienced colleagues were worried by such high-handed talk, for its university is one of Wisconsin's great popular prides. They remonstrated with him, and at another budget hearing, on a teacher's retirement fund, Julius Heil showed he was learning his...
Kidded on the campus, pointed at in public, Roy Riegels began to brood. He tried to forget those ten tragic seconds, but the world refused to forget. When, after graduation, he got a job as coach at a California high school, spectators heckled him from the stands: "Why don'...
Don't Tell Men. Since Munich there has been a phenomenal increase in newspaper columnage about airplanes, big guns, gas masks, defense problems, industrial mobilization. They range from the expert military reporting of New York Timesman Hanson Baldwin to the jingoistic sloganeering ("Two Ships For One") of the tabloid...
JHVH, one of the several names of God in the Old Testament, was considered so awful that Jews never pronounced it, and in reading it substituted another name, such as Adonai. There are no vowel characters in Hebrew, and scholars guessed that, with the missing vowels supplied. JHVH should be...