Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is not a question of recent origin as Conant implies, Hart warns us. Its roots go back to 1905 to Justice Holmes' dissenting opinion in "Lochner v. New York" in which he denounced a law forbidding employees in bake-shops to work more than 60 hours a week as...
Representative Cannon's indignation about organized baseball dates from 1920 when he was attorney for the Chicago White Sox players in baseball's most famed scandal. A onetime professional baseballer himself, he usually pitches in the annual House v. Congressional Press Gallery game. Basis of his complaint to...
"In nature," explained Dr. Wendell Holmes Tisdale, "there is no such thing as a pest. But in human economy, anything that competes with man for his means of subsistence may be considered a pest."
The best steeplechasers are bred in Ireland. From England come literary thoroughbreds. Virginia Woolf's stepgrandfather was William Makepeace Thackeray. Half the most scholarly families in Eng-land-the Darwins, Maitlands, Symondses, Stracheys-are related to her. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Cornhill Magazine and the...
The punks (youthful perverts) and wolves (incorrigibles) in Chalked Out are definitely in the minority. In their clean, sturdy barracks most of the inmates and all of the guards behave a good deal like the amiable and manly V. M. I. officers and guards of Brother Rat (TIME, Dec. 28...