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...Jewry has shown a decided trend toward Orthodoxy and a much greater interest in Jewish history-Dr. Glueck is a good choice. He is an outstanding Biblical archeologist, was the youngest director in history of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, proved the veracity of many a moot Old Testament text by his diggings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reform Jewry's Leader | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Four Law School clubs will fight out a pair of hypothetical cases before regular judges in the semi-finals of the Ames Competition which is going into its third year as a moot-court tournament. The arguments, open to the public, will be held next Monday, and a week later, on November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Clubs Argue Mock Court Cases | 11/14/1941 | See Source »

...Moot. Wells: "I have always insisted that Germany cannot win this war. Today we have command of the sea, we have the submarine problem well in hand and we have mastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MORALE: The Great Debate | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...threatened to choke the garden-Jew-haters, Roosevelt-haters, England-haters, Coughlinites, politicians, demagogues. The General's followers had run away with their leader. The General's firm, meaty, businesslike points (an impractical partnership . . . a squandering of wealth . . . Hitler will die some day) were still as respectably moot as ever. But the General's beans were being rapidly overshadowed by the rank weeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Follow What Leader? | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Obviously it is too late too enter the 1941 crew in the Regatta with hardly a week to go. It must forever remain a moot point whether Tom Bolles' boys could lick his Washington alma mater, the other outstanding contender for the crown. But there is plenty of time to make arrangements for next year and the next and the next. It isn't as though this were the only good crew we were ever going to be able to boast of. Every Year the schools which specialize in producing oarsmen send their graduates to Harvard and Yale where Bolles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Poughkeepsie | 6/19/1941 | See Source »

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