Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope listed four principles for a Catholic judge to follow: 1) He "cannot shirk responsibility for his decisions and place the blame on the law and its authors. When he delivers a sentence in accordance with the law, the judge becomes an accessory to the fact and therefore is equally responsible for its results." 2) The judge "can never pass a sentence which would oblige those affected by it to perform an intrinsically immoral act . . ."3) "Under no circumstances can a judge acknowledge and approve an unjust law . . . Therefore he cannot pass a sentence that would be tantamount to approval...
PRINCE MARRIES HERE, ran the Page One headline in the New Orleans Item (circ. 97,226), The exclusive story, with a four-column picture, told of the marriage of a well-to-do New Orleans woman, 36-year-old Virginia Kirk, and 26-year-old Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern, described as "youngest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany" and heir to his abdicated throne...
...Real School." By Hutchins' own provocative standards, Chicago was. Anyone else might have been given pause by the fact that such universities as Harvard, Yale, Columbia and California, not to mention Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne, also existed. Actually, Chicago had been jostling about among the first four or five U.S. universities for quite some time...
Hutchins was sure that he could. Chicago set up a college that was to give a basic liberal education by the end of the sophomore year. Students who wanted to specialize thereafter could do so in the university. Instead of a hodgepodge of electives, there were only four main course divisions-the social, physical and biological sciences, and the humanities. Since students differed in ability, Chicago decided that they should be free to attend class or not and to go as fast as they wanted. All they had to do was to pass a set of broad examinations given...
...Oklahoma as football teams most likely to succeed. With steady and sometimes brutal authority, the two giants of the midlands stood the test. As the season progressed, two less obvious candidates-Army in the East and California in the Far West-rose to join them as the big four of college football. Last week, with season's end in sight, the big four marshaled their manpower against a common enemy: overconfidence...