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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill is called " filibuster." Any senator can speak on any subject at any time at any length; nothing can stop him but physical exhaustion. Friends and foes of the measure regard a filibuster as a sporting proposition. The object of the supporting side is to find a strategic error in the vocal armor of the filibusterers and obtain the floor to bring the measure to a vote. That happened several years ago to Senator LaFollette, who, after talking 18 hours, lost the floor and saw the bill passed in five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death by Filibuster | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...know what Mr. Bryan's attitude may be, but speaking for myself, I will say that I am more than willing to "concede as much" from the side of religion. When The World intimates that there will be no tolerance from religious leaders it is surely speaking in error. I do not know a single leader in the field of religion who does not stand ready to meet science more than half way and to stretch out a hand for any olive branch that may be extended. I am not acquainted with the type of religious dogmatist to whom, according...

Author: By Dr. JOHN Roach straton, | Title: IS NO STRIFE BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE, SAYS DR. J. R. STRATON | 3/2/1923 | See Source »

...only when I encountered the result of an error in proof," Lewis Carroll is quoted as saying, "that I realized to the full the possibilities of the language." A similar "error in proof" has brought fourth the world, churkle. Type graphically, its presence is explained easily enough, the linotyper had slipped, the second letter of the third row had been struck instead of the third key on the top. But the possibilities are endless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BRILLIG FURTURE | 1/24/1923 | See Source »

...Berle 3L. and H. F. Birnbaum 3L. spoke as the successful counsels for the plaintiff-in-error, defeating Guido Pantaleoni Jr. 3L. and I. J. Williams Jr. 3L., counsels for the defendant-in-error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOTT CLUB WINS AT LAW SCHOOL | 11/24/1922 | See Source »

...semi-finals of the Ames Competition in the Law School last night, the Scott Club, upholding the case of the plaintiff-in-error in a question of implied promises and surety, was declared the winner over the Ames Gray Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOTT CLUB WINS AT LAW SCHOOL | 11/24/1922 | See Source »

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