Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continue his own purge of Red bigwigs, public sentiment has made it advisable to put a stop to local imitators. Under Stalin's instructions, a vigorous roundup of small-fry purgers began. Jumping in to lend the Dictator their prestige, justices of the Soviet Supreme Court exhorted the lower courts and the Secret Political Police to join forces in a nationwide campaign to "Purge the Purgers...
...Majorca roared in five times to bomb Leftist munitions plants on the outskirts of Barcelona. But elsewhere the Spanish war was almost at a standstill. Even the snows of Teruel had melted to make an impassable torrent of the Guadalaviar River, an impassable morass of most of the lower valley...
...regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans Masereel, with News event, a horror panorama of agonized soldiers, screaming mobs and weeping women, and in the lower right-hand corner a well-dressed citizen reading a newspaper and smoking a cigar...
...body roll on curves is inward instead of outward as on an ordinary car. Airplane fashion, the car banks into the curve, vastly increasing both comfort and steadiness. Lateral and horizontal restraint of the body is achieved by rubberized links between the inside end of the trucks and the lower portion of the car's body. Result is a full-size passenger coach whose floor is 30 in. above the rails instead of 4¼ ft.; whose roof is u ft. instead of 14 ft. high. Weight, if made of duralumin, is 50,000 Ib.-40% less than present...
This question may best be answered by pointing out that there are ten Judicial Circuits in the United States, each presided over by a Justice of the Supreme Court (one doing double duty). The Justices have the right to sit as members of lower federal courts and, indeed, until the abolition of the federal circuit courts, it was their duty. It is the pressure of business, the limitation of time, and not a canon of judicial etiquette which makes it unusual that a Supreme Court Justice sits on a case with members of a lower federal court...