Word: marsh
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...cannot separate our present holiday celebrations from our historical legacy. To deny such roots is to disown the origin of our American culture. The Supreme Court wisely considered the arguments in deciding Marsh v. Chambers (1983). In Marsh, the Court permitted the Nebraska legislature to continue opening its sessions with a prayer from a state supported chaplain. The Court abandoned a strict constitutional analysis; instead, the Justices cited the substantial history of legislative chaplains and found no significant First Amendment violations...
...case of Pawtuckoi, Nativity scenes have been erected on public property for over 40 years. Such a firmly established history of secular and religious Christmas celebrations must at least mitigate potential church and state infringement. The Supreme Court may very well use its recent Marsh reasoning to affir the constitutionality of creche displays...
...privately funded black colleges. These institutions must depend on the Federal Government, which distributed about $83.4 million in 1981, and the United Negro College Fund, which this year expects to raise $28 million, vs. $25.8 million last year. The revenues are not enough. Says Clinton Marsh, president of Knoxville College in Tennessee, which has a $4 million annual budget and an endowment of only $300,000: "Our financial status is borderline. Unexpected emergencies such as utility rate hikes are still cause for concern...
...that an English fossil hunter first identified some newly discovered teeth as the detritus of extinct reptiles. (Dinosaur means "terrible lizard" in Greek.) Ever since that time, experts have been squabbling almost as furiously as did the reptiles themselves. In the 19th century, Yale's Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia, the leading collectors in the U.S., feuded so bitterly over fossil sites in the badlands of Wyoming that their teams came close to combat. Today the skirmishing is more genteel, although no less forceful. Some experts, for example, have contended vigorously that dinosaurs must have...
...televised speech that claimed he was being framed by the Justice Department and, by implication, Nixon himself. The Republican women in his Los Angeles audience cheered him to the rafters, but no nationwide ground swell of public opinion developed to lift him high. "Everything was downhill after L.A.," says Marsh Thomson, Agnew's press aide. "The point was driven home to him that he was 'dead.' The limb had been sawed...