Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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We are not psychologists, however. We do not pretend to understand the reasons behind this most unfortunate incident. We know only the fact: a sixteen-year-old boy was cruelly beaten, beaten by three men whose combined weight was over four times his own. The assailents were, supposedly, mature young...
It goes without saying that the incident was regrettable, but those who raise strident demands for hasty and drastic punitive action tend only to compound the wrongdoing. It is all too easy, in the heat of outrage, to lose sight of the basic principles of justice.
The police report that the boy who was injured has identified, from photographs. three of his so-called "attackers," and that they are "prominent members of the Princeton football team." But the police authorities add that the boy was still in a state of shock when he made the identification...
* An early convert to Islam, Othman ben Affan (A.D. 574-656) has chronicled his own practice of this custom before Mohammed outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her...
The new devlopment by Yang and Lee is only the most recent in a seemingly inexhaustible string of ideas to issue from the Institute, and yet there could be no incident to better illustrate the fundamental nature of the Institute for Advanced Study than this one. Yang and Lee are...