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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent his sitting upon the finals of the Ames Competition at the Law School answers, but does not discredit the Crimson's earlier expression of doubt on this subject. The questions posed yesterday have reaped the indignant and confident rebuttal printed elsewhere. That confidence is blind to the fact that supreme court appointments are extremely touchy matters. Justices, whether potential or confirmed, are of necessity super-shy with regard to any and all public appearances that might be used in any way as the basis for a misfounded rumore of partisanship concerning some legal question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR THE DEFENSE | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

...wonders what uniformity of answer, if any, would have been obtained had the misleading questions scoffed at by Mr. Kranz been posed to a representative group of law school students. It is submitted that great diversity would have resulted. Of course the best indication of the fact that the questions were legitimate grounds for speculation is the fact that Mr. Kranz himself has researched concerning question five, producing a subtle and interesting truth worthy of the legal world. His use of the term "pressure of business" takes us back to the good old academic days of the court plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR THE DEFENSE | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

...Moscow's Episcopal church. To the Christian churches Doc Robinson ascribes blame not only for attempts in the past to have his transcribed radio programs (frorrf .18 stations) put off the air, and to have the Post Office Department find something illegal about Psychiana, but also for the fact that he was indicted and tried on charges that he made false statements in attempting to obtain a U. ,S. passport. He was acquitted in 1936. Doc Robinson, who, it turned out, had simply been mistaken about his birth-he is actually a British subject-was then arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Money-Back Religion | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...interview, ''because they have been unable to catalog and classify me in the usual way. They could not decide exactly what type of music mine was. It was not French, after the manner of Debussy, it was not exactly German. That, I feel sure, comes from the fact that my musical education was not confined to one locality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer-Conductor-Fiddler | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Beard and Alfred Vagts were married, Vagts, who had been a German officer during the War, was a professor in Berlin, where they lived until shortly before Hitler came into power. A good cook who does her own housework, Miriam Beard spent eight years accumulating the amazing mass of facts for A History of the Business Man, had to be goaded into finishing the book by her energetic mother, almost had a nervous breakdown before she completed it. The result is a volume that businessmen could value as a lucid, informative study of their pioneering ancestors. The dimensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historical Family | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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