Word: interpretions
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...must be admitted," wrote the strongly pro-Court New York Times, "that this almost equal division . . . when asked to interpret a treaty, does not heighten its prestige...
Though officially the Governors' Conference accomplished nothing more than it ever does, it did serve to point up presidential politics for next year. Newsmen were quick to interpret Governor Pinchot's outburst as an opening sound off for the Republican nomination against President Hoover. Recalled was their long personal antagonism which culminated fortnight ago when President Hoover spoke alone at Valley Forge while Governor Pinchot was memorializing his old idol Theodore Roosevelt at his Oyster Bay tomb. While nobody seriously expected Mr. Pinchot to muster 10% of the delegates to the national convention, he became an anti-Hoover...
...first grand holiday was last Thursday morning. There, in Memorial Hall, he labored for hours over the 56 passages which were given for English 2, under the now traditional heading: "Interpret, discuss, supply information, as the case may require. Answers should be full, precise, and well expressed. Vague paraphrases are not acceptable. It is well to quote parallel passages. Indicate the context. Do not copy the questions." Yes, that does cover the situation pretty well, on the whole...
...were then cited as the court's Liberal minority upholding "human rights." Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland and Butler were grouped as the Conservative majority. Insurgent Senators flayed Nominee Hughes as a reactionary, a "corporation lawyer" who would ally himself with the court's conservatives to interpret the Law and the Constitution narrowly. Oilman-Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty spoke darkly of "opinions which will give a monopoly in perpetuity to some one corporation." Friends of Nominee Hughes were of a different opinion; they predicted that he would have a liberal cast of mind on the bench, might often...
...Melody of Chaos" is a very apt title for this attempt to interpret the works of Conrad Aiken and certain of his associates in the psychoanalytical schools of writing. A good portion of the book is concerned with exposing the essential chaotic nature of the material with which these writers are working, and most of the rest is given over to an evaluation of Aiken's poetry in terms of this burrowing about at the hidden roots of action...