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Francis Bacon wrote long ago: "Judges ought to remember that their office is 'jus dicere,' and not 'jus dare...', while the Apostle Timothy once said of higher matters: "Nos scimus quia lex bona est, modo quis ea utatur legitime...
...planes, 18 auxiliary craft representing 30 troopships. The Black defenders, commanded by Vice Admiral Arthur Lee Willard of the Scouting Force, numbered eleven cruisers (including seven of the new "Treaty" 10,000-tonners), 28 destroyers, five V-type heavy submarines, 15 smaller underseacraft, four minesweepers, aircraft carriers Lexington ("Lady Lex") and Langley, 171 planes...
...huge letters across the stern ends of their decks, to guide homing airmen, the carriers bear the abbreviations SARA and LEX, now their nicknames...
...field stood clear for a moment, then active silhouets on the hilltop. They were lost again, in the rain-shapes of fog, flying to no destination more real than the unknown termination of a myth. What horse was leading? It might be Sir Abe Bailey's Lex, an entry which Lady Astor gave the miners in South Wales as a tip to win. It might be Colorado,* the favorite on which a total of some $10,000,000 had been bet because he had recently beaten Coronach, the winter favorite, by five lengths. It might have been Lancegaye...
...legal adage de minimis non curat lex never fitted U. S. legal proceedings very well, much less U. S. business. Accordingly, the National City Bank of New York has recently undertaken an analysis of the straw-hat business of this country, shortly to come into its liveliest season...