Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test, drawn up by the College Entrance Examination Board, will seek to ascertain general knowledge, including vocabulary and social studies, rather than a concrete and exacting understanding of legal doctrine. A deeper view of student aptitude is the intended goal of the test, which may eventually be adopted by all the nation's law schools...
...supplementary examination, the test will be extremely useful in selecting applicants and assessing their legal ability, stated school officials...
...graduate of the University of Virginia in 1921 and the Harvard Law School in 1924, Marbury made a distinguished record in legal service to the War Department during World War II. He was awarded the Medal for Merit, highest honor given a civilian in recognition of war service...
...Fellow of the University, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and former associate editor of the Harvard Law Review, began practicing law in Maryland and served as assistant Attorney General of Maryland before his war-long association with the legal staff of the War Department...
...game warden brought home the biggest bag of the 1947 duck season: Cinemactors Clark Gable, Frank Morgan and Johnny Mack Brown. The warden said that he had caught Morgan with 13 dead ducks, Brown with 16; but He-Man Gable had been staggering along with 25 (21 above the legal limit). Nonsense, Gable huffed, he had not shot a single duck. After consultation with an M-G-M lawyer, the warden decided that, on recount, Gable had really shot only six. With everybody (except the ducks) feeling better, the party was fined $200 apiece...