Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to try a twist at the tail of the cosmos," wrote the late "Great Dissenter," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, to a philosopher friend. The letters, published for the first time last week, were composed in a scrawl and were knotty with Holmesian twists...
...Goodwins did not always feed on misery. Once they were fertile land known to the Kentish peasants as Lomea (The Low Island), and belonged to Earl Godwine, friend of Edward the Confessor. One legend says that Godwine, hard-pressed by his enemies, vowed to the Virgin that if he got back to Lomea he would build a steeple to Tenterden Church; when he escaped he forgot the vow. Another version: that the Abbot of Canterbury built the steeple from money intended for the island's dikes...
Thousands of Indians murdered their fellowmen last year. Few were arrested, none convicted-because legal evidence is difficult to procure when the ordinary man counts perjury a duty if it helps a friend or relative. In Delhi's dingy Sessions Court last week, a murder trial ended which demonstrated India's problem of crime & punishment...
Nothing more might have been heard of Dr. Joshi's death if he had not been a friend of Mohandas Gandhi; when he expressed his outrage, Indian police set forth to track down the murderer. Ten days later they arrested Dr. Joshi's neighbor, Moslem Dr. Abdul Qureshi...
...Kimball appointed to the Council because "he has a friend there." Yes--but there are other kinds of friendships than political ones, Mr. Heer, and some of these grow from the strongly human characteristic of admiring another's work. Chairing well the '50 Jubilee Committee, guiding the preparation of a much needed pamphlet for orientation of entering Freshmen, and the revision of the Freshman Studies Handbook so that he may have a definite idea of what a course's contents and purposes are other than its number, field of concentration, and time of meeting, and writing a 30-page series...