Word: moot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ames competition, which is conducted consists of the presentation and trial of a series of moot cases an various subjects by the Law School clubs. In the first year, each club must qualify to center the competition, and in the fall of the second year a competition is carried on which eliminates all but eight clubs. Quarter-finals are held in the spring of the second year, so that only third-year men participate in the tall semi-finals...
...Ames competition, which is conducted annually, consists of the presentation and trial of a series of moot cases on various subjects by the law clubs. In the first year, each club must qualify to enter the competition, and in the fall of the second year a competition is carried on that eliminates all but eight clubs...
...Davis, sound engineer; Uncle George Rawls. famed Florida cracker guide: and the dogs. The dogs, typical U. S. hunters, have contributed largely to the expedition's game catch. Most are foxhounds. Others are foxhound-bloodhound crosses. Two are fox terriers. Value of the hounds against jungle beasts was moot when the expedition left the U. S. last winter. The late Paul Rainey had used a pack successfully in Africa many years ago. But Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt when they went to mid-Asia for Ovis poli found hounds useless on cold desert plateaus. On the other hand David Newell...
...directors felt it would be folly to continue $7 dividends equal to $60,000,000 a year; cut it as an unpleasant surprise to the rate of $4 per share, less than in any year since 1915, when no dividend was paid. Directors hinted their attitude toward the moot question of wage reduction by recommending a cut in salaries...
...patrol boat 11.15. Again the evidence was favorable to the Coast Guard. Sea lawyers also remembered the "hot pursuit" clause in the 1924 agreement, but whether a hot pursuit is limited to within an hour's sailing, or whether it may extend onto the high seas is a moot point. Coast Guardsmen felt they were within their rights when they sank the I'm Alone 200 mi. out in the Gulf of Mexico. Canada felt otherwise...