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...differ only in that they have the power, if not the authority, to enforce their desires . . . The most expansive reading of the leading constitutional cases does not remotely suggest that this Court has been granted a roving commission, either by the Founding Fathers or by the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, to strike down laws that are based upon notions of policy or morality suddenly found unacceptable by a majority of this Court...
English Professor Derek Pearsall, also a medievalist who says he came to Harvard to work with Bloomfield, praised the professor's publications, "The Seven Deadly Sins: An Introduction to the History of a Religious Concept" and "Piers Plowman as a Fourteenth-Century Apocalypse" in particular...
...parts of the world so that it is now the second important language in Great Britain. In terms of the number of people speaking it, Urdu and its Hindustani/Hindi analogues rank third after Chinese and English. We should also mention that its literature, which goes back to the fourteenth century, is much vaster than American literature...
...elected to the Associated Press Third Team All-American for the second straight year and was elected Honorable Mention All-East. He finished the season seventh in rushing and fourteenth in all-purpose yardage nationally...
...cigarettes and a tape cassette hardly bigger than a commemorative postage stamp. The Picocassette, as it is called, weighs three grams and can hold 60 minutes of dictation on a tape that moves a glacial nine-tenths of a centimeter per second. The tape is about one-fourteenth the size of a standard audiocassette and not half as big as Microcassettes, which have been in use since 1969. The small machines are expensive: $395 for the hand-held dictating unit, $550 for the transcribing device and $20 for a package of three Picocassettes...