Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsmen produced one ten-pound peccadillo, and it came in the twelve-minute interlude between Senator Goldwater's acceptance speech and the formal end of the convention. Huntley said: "Senator Keating of New York seems to be leading the entire New York delegation in departing from the convention hall." CBS, at the same time, was accurately reporting the uneventful and orderly breakup of the crowd. Back on NBC, David Brinkley went on: "Three-fourths of the New York delegation has walked out." Outside the hall, Sander Vanocur then explained that Keating may have been miffed by Goldwater...
Golden Age. It took Professor Pound only six years after he came to the faculty to become dean of Harvard Law School, and his two decades in the job (1916-36) were the school's golden age. Pound's combustible faculty ran a philosophical gamut from the conservatism of Edward H. ("Bull") Warren to the then liberalism of Felix Frankfurter...
...standards were so high that one-third of his students failed to win degrees. Those who did, including Dean Acheson, Thomas Corcoran and David E. Lilienthal, often plunged straight into writing New Deal legislation. Himself an early Roosevelt Republican, Pound later became disillusioned with executive pressure on the courts and supported the G.O.P.'s Alf Landon...
After resigning as dean that same year, Pound became Harvard's first "roving professor"-entitled to teach throughout the university-and for eleven years he expounded on everything from sociology to Lucretius. Prime founder of the pioneering American Law Institute, he wrote 44 books, ranging from Readings In Roman Law to The Spirit of the Common Law. At 76, already a master of French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin. Sanskrit and Spanish, he took up Chinese in order to reorganize Nationalist China's judicial system. When the Communists took over the mainland before he could finish, Pound lambasted...
Died. Roscoe Pound, 93, Harvard's renowned student and teacher of law; after a long illness; in Cambridge, Mass...