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Word: nebraska (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in Lincoln, Nebraska when homesteaders still lived in sod houses on the plains, trained in Nebraska as a botanist, largely self-educated in law with only one year of Harvard Law School for formal training, Pound rose to the highest ranks of American scholarship, profoundly affected the course of American legal thought, and presided over the golden age of the Harvard Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roscoe Pound Dies at 93, Revitalized Legal System | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

Pound came to Harvard in 1910 as Story Professor of Law after serving as Commissioner of Appeals in Nebraska and as professor of Law at Northwestern and Chicago Universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roscoe Pound Dies at 93, Revitalized Legal System | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...city legislator with a pocket-sized district? Is it really helpful to run the risk of giving a big-city political machine, such as Chicago's, a stranglehold on a whole state? If both branches must be based on population, why not save money and time by following Nebraska's example of a unicameral legislature, a possibility that was being discussed last week in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Vermont and Rhode Island? Should two such diverse areas as Northern and Southern California both be dominated by the single county of Los Angeles? Already some Northern Californians are renewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: A New Charter For State Legislatures | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

Moving with deadly mischief across the Midwest last week was still another herd of galloping gags. Hard on the heels of the whatsits (TIME, May 29), the new yaks cropped up first in newspaper ads and TV spot commercials in Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota. Designed to stamp out the elephant jokes, they had a more professional intent as well, namely to promote Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s classified section. Sample Northwestern ad: "I found intestinal fortitude in the yellow pages. Where? Under Abdominal Supports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Yellow Fever | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...primaries was unimpressive. He lost to Lodge's write-in candidacy in New Hampshire. He won Illinois, but his only on-the-ballot opponent, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, got 26% of the vote. He won Indiana, but Harold Stassen, of all people, got 26%. He won Nebraska, but write-ins gave Nixon 31.4%. He all but withdrew from Oregon, leaving Rocky as the only active candidate in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Man on the Bandwagon | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

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