Word: inners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind their walnut bench in the square inner chamber of their great marble temple, the nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. looked down upon an attorney arguing. Had a New Jersey school board impaired the obligation of contracts in reducing the salaries of school teachers who had fixed tenures of office? Through the chamber's marble columns, Court Clerk Charles Elmore Cropley-he who held the cellophane-covered Bible on which Franklin Roosevelt renewed his oath of office (TIME, Feb. 1)-appeared and laid some mimeographed sheets before Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Presently...
...artist Aga Riza. This is dated about two and a half centuries later, from the end of the sixteenth century. Now there is no epic tale but a contemporary person, not an anonymous craftsman but a celebrated artist. Now it is studied delicacy of drawing, conscious rhythm of inner and outer line, but there is still the Persian abstraction. The body is without weight, a mere pattern of pleasing shapes of color, the pose is without stability...
...year of interneship, contact with the personnel of the various administrative bureaus is made. This enables the men to learn more rapidly the inner workings of the department which particularly interests them. Although positions are not guaranteed to all the Fellows, introductions to executive frequently lead to further interneship and eventual posts in the department...
...they weigh 17 million times as much as a hydrogen atom, nearly one million times as much as a molecule of water. Left by themselves they are inert. But in contact with living plant or animal material they multiply incessantly. Under some conditions the virus protein molecule changes its inner structure all by itself. It then causes a totally different disease...
HAMILTON FISH: THE INNER HISTORY OF THE GRANT ADMINISTRATION-Allan Nevins-Dodd, Mead...