Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jury of two women, ten men, Obstetrician Bourne presented his case. The doctor argued: "The law of England cannot be so crazy and cruel. ... It cannot possibly be unlawful to avert the consequences of a felonious trespass on a child. In my opinion as an obstetric surgeon it may have been dangerous for a girl of her age to bear a child. Ninety-nine per cent of my colleagues would be agreeable to an operation such as I performed." Many of Britain's best medical men, including old Baron Horder, Physician in Ordinary to the King, trooped...
...Adolf Hitler made public on the day of the market break a decree providing in detail for army billeting and requisitions in Germany in case of war. "The common weal takes precedence over all private gain," says this decree; army officers "may demand from any person subject to this law that he permit the use of objects he owns or holds for safe keeping, or that he transfer his rights to movable objects" such as automobiles or trucks. Payment for services required of civilians is to be made only "in so far as the services cannot justifiably be expected...
...irresponsible, advertiser, P. I. has been a fond but strict mother. At the instigation of John Irving Romer, editor of P. I. from 1908 until his death in 1933, a model statute, making untrue or misleading advertising a mis demeanor, was drawn up in 1911. Today the model is law in 25 States...
...Scientists have not quite chilled matter to absolute zero, and never expect to. Nevertheless, researches in cryogenics (low tempera ture) are important to the study of entropy, which is defined as the degree of randomness or lack of organization in the energy distribution of a closed system. The third law of thermodynamics states that at absolute zero there must be no entropy. The particles have two kinds of motion, random motion due to the external energy of heat, and their own intrinsic motion. Thus, at absolute zero the random heat motion is obliterated and the intrinsic motion would thus...
...substance down one notch further into the cold. By repetitions of this cycle, Dr. Giauque (pronounced gee-oke) has reached one-tenth of one degree above absolute zero. This is the U. S. cryogenic record. Since no imaginable thermometer could record such cold, it is calculated by the Curie law which gives magnetic susceptibility as a function of temperature...