Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What Mark Twain Meant. Since 1937, the Nine had taken themselves pretty well out of the headlines, but they had made news nonetheless. Closer to the tradition of Holmes and Brandeis than to that of Hughes, they had plowed under old and respected landmarks; they had overturned, altogether, some 30 previous decisions of the Supreme Court; they had struck out boldly, sometimes brashly, into new grounds. Other courts had split more violently, but no court had quarreled so continuously and rambunctiously with itself, Whereas in the '20s and '30s the courts found themselves in solid agreement some...
...justices sometimes viewed the official opinions of their brethren on the court with the sharp, scornful rejoinders of political debaters: "Puts another weapon in the hands of the criminal world." "Converts the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact." "I give up-now I realize fully what Mark Twain meant when he said, 'The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.' " Some citizens who were personally affected by the justices' rulings couldn't help but agree with the justices' earthiest criticisms of themselves...
Last week in Washington, Louisville Publisher Mark F. Ethridge, U.S. delegate to the commission, submitted his report to President Truman. The core of the Arab-Israeli deadlock, Ethridge told the President, is the problem of Arab refugees, who have been scrabbling out piecemeal existences in the impoverished Arab states around Israel ever since the British mandate ended 13 months ago. At Lausanne, representatives from four Arab states (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt) steadfastly refused to discuss a final peace settlement until Israel agreed to accept a large proportion of the Arab refugees. The Israelis resisted all attempts to get them...
...rehearsal, she puzzled Guest Conductor Fritz Reiner with her embellishments in the spiritual she was going to sing; she could not mark the places in the score for him so he could be sure to keep the NBC Symphony in step: "I'm sorry, I just have to do it as the spirit moves me." In the broadcast last week, the spirit was moving little Soprano Maynor-but with a faultless taste and timing that kept Conductor Reiner and her listeners moving right with...
...unusual Class of '49 has made its mark on the hither edge of the Charles. No longer is the Radcliffe Commencement unbelievable, no longer is joint instruction a practice only of state universities. There is no telling what contribution '49 has made for the future; for the present, bear in mind that this class has had a more complete education than its predecessors, and that upon it will rest the responsibility of proving that joint education is a paying proposition intellectually as well as financially for the school across the Common...