Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allow Supreme Court Justices to retire on full pay at 70 and require them to do so at 75. Although this was based on the President's argument that younger judges are needed, it did not appeal particularly to most liberals, because the two outstanding examples in recent years of aged justices have been the Court's famed Liberals, Justice Holmes who resigned at 90 and Justice Brandeis who at 80 is still on the bench...
...Commissar for Heavy Industry he was called "The World's Biggest Businessman." Certainly he was one of J. Stalin's two or three closest friends. The recent trial shifted any blame for the present lagging of Soviet Heavy Industry from Ordzhonikidze to the "Trotskyism" of his Vice-Commissar, Grigoriy Piatakov, who was sentenced to death. Piatakov was not only one of the very biggest Reds but a warm and human character by comparison with the cold, brusque Ordzhonikidze. Russia has long been a land of personal vengeance and Piatakov was the kind of man whose Russian friends would...
Many doctors have tried to measure this giant for medical records. He resents them. Nonetheless last June he let Dr. Charles Dean Humberd measure him for the recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...Recent rains would not cause the glacier to move. Earthquakes or a couple of winters of unusually heavy snows ten years ago, or both, are the cause. The whole area of Alaska is an earthquake zone. Added weight in the ice-filled catchment basin, caused by new snows or an earthquake avalanching down old ice and snows from the higher slopes forces an impulse through the glacier. It is a wave motion and the longer the glacier, the longer it takes to reach the foot. Scientists pooh-poohed a man named Lawrence Martin when he declared right after the Alaskan...
...with academic affairs too long to re-enter them with preconceived ideas. Ever since his appointment, he has been too actively engaged in his various Washington duties to consider any technical details such as new entrance requirements or a possible 4-year course. In general, however, he favors the recent tightening of entrance requirements, resulting in a smaller first year class and necessitating fewer flunks at the end of that year. This plan will not only allow a more efficient program during the first year, but in cutting the number of failures, will be in itself beneficial. "Too often...