Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Break down the barriers which have protected the independence of the Supreme Court, and the way will lie broad and open for the first man who would be dictator, whatever his name may prove to be," declared Professor Griswold. He asserted that there had been a "no man's land" between Federal and State authority, but that Monday's decision by the Supreme Court, reversing its stand on the minimum wage act, completely altered this "twilight zone...
...judge prepared to sentence Helen Love to from seven years to life in prison, she returned to her cell, told a jail matron: "I can sit in this chair, or lie down on this bed and kill myself by strength of will power." So saying, she selected the bed, went into a fit of sulks so profound that half a dozen solemn psychiatrists could not even agree on a name for it, variously calling it "hysterical fugue," "split personality," "dementia praecox," "triumph of the subconscious," "self-imposed hypnosis," "voluntary stupor...
...recommending the compulsory athletic fee the Council laid plank number two in the bridge that will lead Harvard over the deep and horrid chasm in whose gloomy depths so many other colleges lie groaning. President Conant's demand for an endowment fund started the bridge from one side and the Council has laid the foundations from the other--only by a strong intra-mural program, self-sufficing and self-supporting, can athletics be rigorously bent to meet the needs of every student and the chasm successfully avoided...
...Bois, Reginald Marsh, Frank Mechau Jr., Mario Korbel, Joseph Renier, George Snowden, John Holabird, Dean Everett Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts. Many of the painters like Curry and Marsh were considered violent radi cals by Academicians eight or ten years ago, but kindly President Jonas Lie has in the three years of his incumbency been striving manfully to have the Academy follow, though belatedly, the times. Last week he explained that these elections were all provisional, would not be final until the neophytes had produced portraits (not necessarily self-portraits) of them selves for the Academy...
...many times before, President Lie won one of the 15 prizes himself: $400 for a Maine landscape entitled Rock Bound Coast. Rockwell Kent won another prize for one of his familiar marine views, Reginald Marsh won a third for an equally familiar Bowery crowd before a sideshow...