Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...17th century; Miller in America; Finley and Dow in the Classics. Durand knows his Aquinas and Bacon, but perhaps because he is over-worked, he seems indifferent to tutees. New tutors in the department will be D. J. Boorstin, England and America, whose special subject is the history of law; P. Dur., France; and H. Rice, French literature...
Probably true, according to Sullivan, is the legend that a falling apple started the massive machinery of Newton's mind rolling toward the Law of Gravitation. Voltaire reported this incident, and Voltaire had it from Newton's niece...
...magazines: Esquire, Ballyhoo, Film Fun, Peek, See, Sex Guide, Sheer Folly and 97 others; in Denver, Colo. The agency: a committee headed by Right Reverend Hugh L. McMenamin, rector of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Reason: pictures and advertisements "suggestive of sex." Authority: Colorado law forbids distribution of obscene literature, provides for mandatory fines and jail sentences for violators. Fortnight ago. Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton of Denver appointed the McMenamin committee, instructed his police to enforce any bans it might make. If magazine distributors object to police action, they can sue the police in court...
...lawyers and accountants have been toiling almost three years on a study of investment trusts, to be followed by a report to Congress, recommendations for a regulatory law, doubtless a permanent bureau staffed by SEC lawyers and accountants. One of SEC's aims is to prevent capture of one investment company by another (especially when the capture is financed with the captured company's assets), with disregard of minority stockholder's interests...
...change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death. I began to pray with all my might...