Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that has no real aeronautical importance-the woman's endurance record. Her time aloft alone was 8 hrs. 6 min. 37 sec., better than Lady Sophie Heath's 77-hr, record made earlier this year. Sixteen years ago, when planes were a novel and dangerous experiment, Ruth Law stayed up six hours. Neither the National Aeronautic Association or the Federation Aeronautique Internationale pays attention to such flights made by women as women. The recognized world endurance record is 65½ hours...
...Harvard Law school are some 1,500 students. Of these some 375 will be given degrees. Of these some 30 or 32 by high academic achievement are on the board of the Harvard Law Review, of which only one is President. Revealing was a check made last week of the careers of the last 15 of these Presidents...
Although all students who graduate from Harvard Law School have fair measure of legal standing in the disillusioned eyes of practicing lawyers, it is the President of the Harvard Law Review at whom they cast glances not appraising but accepting, not supercilious but nearly reverential. Enviable is the position of the President of the Harvard Law Review; he may practically choose what potent law firm he will serve after graduation. Similarly Presidents of law reviews and journals at other law schools achieve in varying degrees the quasi-Olympian privilege of being able to choose, instead of having...
...last 15 Presidents of the Harvard Law Review and their positions are: 1914, Boykin C. Wright, senior partner, Cotton & Franklin, New York; 1915, Robert P. Patterson, partner, Webb, Patterson & Hadley, New York; 1916, Gerard C. Henderson,* senior partner, Cravath, Henderson & Degersdorff, New York; 1917, Charles Bunn, partner, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler, St. Paul; 1918, Lloyd H. Landau, special counsel, Public Service, St. Louis; 1919, George E. Osborne, Professor of Law at Stanford University; 1920, Cloyd Laporte, junior partner, Root, Clark, Buckner, Rowland & Ballantine, New York; 1921, Donald C. Swatland, junior partner, Cravath, Degersdorff, Swaine & Wood, New York; 1922, Bertram...
...Yale, full professors receive from $6,000 to $8,000; the Medical School salaries are somewhat higher. At the Law School certain professors make...