Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which the foreign courts forthwith suspended. In all, 108 Americans were imprisoned-a year's total which, considering that it applies to 700,000 men, amounts to a remarkably low crime rate and one of the highest leniency rates in the world. Foreign court sentences are usually much lighter than U.S. sentences. Last year, for example, German newspapers hounded seven G.I.s accused of raping a 15-year-old girl, but they fell silent when a U.S. court-martial handed down four life sentences, three for 40 years; the maximum sentence under German law for first-offense rape is three...
...lighter side of Dumbarton Oaks is the gardens surrounding it. The part of the property owned by Harvard covers nearly two city blocks in width and extends over a mile in length. The grounds run from Georgetown, the oldest section of Washington, to the newer but equally plush Embassy Row on Massachusetts Avenue. The grounds around the main building, which houses the library, museum, and study rooms, are covered with the most beautiful formal gardens in Washington. Not an American Versailles, Dumbarton Oaks, with its fountains, box hedges, and old shade trees, does manage to retain an aristocratic aura...
Easier Sentences. The fact is that on the record, U.S. military abroad generally get lighter sentences when tried and convicted under local laws than under their own. In Germany last year, seven G.I.s were tried by a U.S. court-martial for rape. The Germans started to protest bitterly that they should try the case, fell silent when the court-martial sentenced four of the defendants to life imprisonment, the others to 40 years. The maximum sentence for first-offense rape under German law: three years...
Tillich develops this idea in his latest book, Existence and the Christ (University of Chicago; $4.50), published last week as Volume II of his massive work-in-progress, a three-volume Systematic Theology. Apart from his lighter writing and lecturing on everything from modern art to depth psychology, Harvard's Tillich is attempting to construct a modern Protestant "system"-fitting all aspects of the Christian faith together in a single intellectual whole. To this titanic task German-born Paul Tillich brought a Teutonic ponderosity in Volume I, published six years ago. It was constructed on a plan called "correlation...
...been lowered from 274.59 to 256.284 cu. in. (the limit for supercharged power plants was 170.856 cu. in.), on the theory that less power would mean less speed. It meant just the opposite. Smaller engines allowed smaller cars. The "bombs" that turned out for the 500 had never been lighter, had never handled so well on the turns. As a result, the first ten to finish all beat the late Bill Vukovich's 130.84 m.p.h. record...