Word: pendentive
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...overloaded train jolted upon a poorly fastened rail, there came a rending crash. A car teetered sickeningly, fell to the bottom of the river. Two other cars slithered and hung pendent from the cliff?below them a 190-foot clear drop...
Heretofore, the N. E. A. support of this bill, now pendent many years, has been received by unbelievers without much comment. But last week there also came to the Congressional public hearing, a lot of harsh words about the proposed new Department. Senator Copeland of New York called it superfluous. President Lowell of Harvard called it bureaucratic and dangerously political. He said: "About education we talk much and know little." President Emeritus Judson of the University of Chicago called it a temptation to political vanity and unscientific. President Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania said it would violate state rights...
...costs half a judge's salary." In England judges are paid $20,000 to $50,000, but Chief Justice Taft receives only $15,000, and the Associate? Justices who serve with him get $500 a year less. Mr. Davis quoted John Marshall: " 'An ignorant, corrupt and de pendent judiciary is the worst affliction any people can suffer. No man who is inadequately paid can be independent in thought.' "If the present salaries are to be continued, judges should be required to take the oath of celibacy so as not to expose their dependents to the hardships which...
...courtyard of the grey Palais de 1'Elysée shuffled the famed Garde Républicaine band; within the huge pile fidgeted Gaston Doumergue, Protestant President of France, Aristide Briand, anticlerical Premier, lesser officials. They were trapped out in state uniforms, ribbons across chests, decorations pendent. They spoke little. Premier Briand was thinking of his successful 1905 fight to oust the Church from its French properties, of his long struggle to keep separate Church and State in France. President Doumergue thought of his Huguenot ancestors buried in Provence. Here he was, a Protestant, about to lend his office...
...Relation to the Hague Court of Arbitration: Both courts are inde pendent thereof...