Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is Impeachment? On the basis of the evidence, nearly every Congressman agreed that Judge English was not an ideal?was, in fact, a bad Judge. He had no defenders. But, though the final vote would not indicate it, there were on the floor of the House many stubborn opponents of impeachment. Why? Because there were two interpretations of the word "impeachment...
...Final Scene. When the three day debate began, most Congressmen from what little they knew, thought Judge English should be impeached. Then as they learned that nothing had been indisputably proved against him, many wavered. Finally, however, the able lawyer-Congressmen who led the fight for impeachment convinced the House: 1) That it must impeach if it had reasonable suspicion; 2) That it was entitled to consider the Judge's general course of conduct (not merely this or that separate offense). On these two grounds, it was clear impeachment would be voted. Congressmen trooped to their seats, the amazing number...
After satirizing several prominent educational institutions, Chapman, the final speaker for Harvard, gave the essence of his argument by saying, "education hardens the mind, thickens the skull, makes us uncomfortable within and unbearable without...
...error, a sacrifice and another single. In the eighth, the Terriers preceded to put the game on ice. Two were out when Kincaide reached second on Sullivan's toss into the stands, MacDonald singled, and O'Brien hit a home run. In the ninth the Terriers added their final marker, so that Harvard's eleventh hour rally, which netted two runs, fell short of tying the count...
...have always been more or less fascinated by the final flourish which the Emperor Vespasian made when, in his last moments, he whispered apropos of the customary deflection of the Emperors. "Methinks I am becoming a god." So this morning at 9 o'clock I shall, in memory of this old gentleman, visit Sever 18, to hear Professor Ferguson in History 3b lecture on the Flavian emperors...