Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desire of the donors, however, that a man will be finally secured to combine the knowledge of the various branches of Tentonic Cultures. Instead of presenting merely one aspect of the subject, a permanent recipent of the Kuno Francke Professorship would have to be able to give students the benefit of understanding of German history. German art, and German literature. It was the unusual ability of Professor Francke to so correlate the whole of German culture which first inspired the donors of the endowment to perpetrate his work in this field...
Subway Express. If a police inspector be summoned aboard a subway train and told that a man has been shot dead, it may well give him pause. If a medical examiner gets on a few stations down the line and declares that the killing resulted not from shooting but from electrocution a few moments beforehand, the inspector may well be dumbfounded. If the car lights are suddenly extinguished and a likely witness is riddled with bullets, the inspector may even be pardoned for surrendering his badge...
...caustic critics had to pass on to the cemetery at the age of thirty-three. A brilliant mind, but lacking in balance; and I would say it was entirely because he had not given his body the attention and care to which it was justly entitled. . . .* Loving care you give your body will be returned with many rich rewards. It will insure you good digestion. . . . It will give you bright eyes...
Late Saturday Cohen visited the Brattle Square police station and sought to regain the circulars which had been taken from his when he was arrested Friday, wishing to give the bills out at an indoor meeting Sunday. He was informed-that his circulars were secure in the locker of the officer who had taken them from him originally, and that they could not be obtained until his return Sunday morning. Promising to have them for him "Sunday, the officer on night duty told Cohen to come back then...
...each of these eras lawyers turned to comparative law to give concrete content to ideas of what the law should be . . . It is not an accident that comparative law, after decades of quiescence, is taking on new life in this country. If we are to proceed wisely in creative juristic activity in the complex society of today, we must study scientifically the legal materials of the whole world...