Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those two clubs, each of eight members, are the survivors of a seven-term competition under the legal rules of "the Commonwealth of Ames," a theoretical state set up by the Law School to provide a uniform body of Law for purposes of mock trials and debates...
Mikolajczyk writes: "Stalin . . . was angrier than I had ever seen him. He turned on Osobka-Morawski and Bierut [Lublin Poles] and roared a demand that they immediately renew their agreement to the frontier that had been established [secretly in 1944] without the knowledge of the legal Polish government in London. They hurriedly complied. Stalin then turned on Molotov and rebuked him thunderously. 'You had no right to agree to let these people use those waters for their shipping,' he stormed. 'I will not have it! I will not have foreign spies spying on Konigsberg! You know very...
...fact is I've been solvent for only two or three years, but now they buy my pictures as an investment. It's grotesque. I even have to sell my stuff on installments so the Government won't get all the money. That's legal, you know. A Virginia fellow saw a reproduction of a picture of mine and he bought it on the phone for $10,000. But I'm quittin' anyway. Of course I'm gonna paint, but I'm not gonna let the dealers push me around any more...
...line football ruining the game? The 84,000 people who sat in on Indiana's rout didn't seem to think so. Michigan, using one squad for offense and another for defense, made 300 line-up changes during the game. The unlimited substitution rule made it all legal. At West Point, where the two-platoon system is well established, the offense and defense units practice on different fields, learn different sets of signals. Nobody denies that it is the most efficient way of running a football squad. What a rebellious contingent of coaches wanted to know was: where...
...writing "The Legacy of Sacco and Vauzetti" the authors have not only brought the objective and non-partisan substance of this vitally important chapter of recent history between the covers of one volume; they have also pioneered in the presentation of the effect specific legal action has on culture and therefore on society. The sharp contrast between the sober opinions of lawyers and judges, and the emotional cries of poets, novelists, and playwrights gives the reader a powerful three-dimensional picture of the event. This book is a major contribution to history, sociology...