Word: holmeses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard's junior varsity heavyweight crew failed to make the finals of the first Holmes Pierrepont regatta for elite eights at Nottingham, England, Saturday, finishing third behind varsity powerhouses from Northeastern and the University of Washington.
In 1919 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted that repressive measures were justified only when a "clear and present danger" existed. By such a definition, Franklin Roosevelt clearly had good reason to authorize the use of wiretaps in 1940 in matters involving "the defense of the nation." But his decision in...
In an age of global detente, it is proper to ask whether the prevailing security operations are justified, and beyond that, the related question of whether the affairs of Government need be so elaborately shrouded in secrecy. In Justice Holmes' phrase, does a clear and present danger still exist...
The method: shrewd conclusion based on empirical observation. What the eyes could see, the wits could solve. At the zenith of the Darwinian revolution, Oliver Wendell Holmes assured his countrymen: "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper-chamber, if he has common-sense...
Admittedly, the situation resembles the old Sherlock Holmes solution of a crime because of the curious behavior of the dog in the nighttime - curious because the dog did nothing in the nighttime. The banality of this view of Hitler at ease is the message, as always with home movies. Most...