Word: locke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That's about it. You now have the key to success in your hands and it has sprung open many a Yale lock. (Thanks...
...stop until he can debunk the goodness and glory of God. In a final episode, an old man sits reading the Bible by the light of a solitary lamp. A young sharper (not the confidence-man) exposes the old man's imperfect faith by selling him a lock and a money belt, and giving him a counterfeit-detector as a bonus. The confidence-man gently chides the old fellow, "since in Providence, as in man, you and I equally put trust." "Let me extinguish this lamp," he says, and as he leads the old man off into the darkness...
...mile-and the Flamingo is a mile and an eighth. Most of the smart money has already decided that Nashua has the stamina, the Boston Doge is a front runner who will fade in the last long furlong. To most of the paddock prophets it looked like a lock. "But don't forget," one of them hedged, "once, they even beat...
Briefcase Tape Recorder. A battery-operated magnetic tape recorder that is built into an average-sized leather briefcase and weighs less than 12 Ibs. has been put on the market by Manhattan's Amplifier Corp. of America. The recorder, operated by touching a combination lock and switch, can pick up whispers at 12 ft. and ordinary speech at 100 ft. It provides recording for 1½ hours. Price...
...School, who criticized and derided what he called "the sporting theory of law." Scoffed Wigmore: "To require the disclosure to an adversary of the evidence that is to be produced would be repugnant to all sportsmanlike instincts. Rather permit you to preserve the secret of your tactics, to lock up your documents in the vault, to send your witness to board in some obscure village, and then, reserving your evidential resources until the final moment, to marshal them at the trial before your surprised and dismayed antagonist, and thus overwhelm...