Word: renders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, claimed that applications to the various Houses at Harvard are distributed evenly enough to render Yale's method unnecessary...
Emmanuel Slabaugh and Eli Hershberger (John's distant cousin) backed up his refusal. Their bonneted wives, standing quietly by, said nothing. Said Judge Young: "I can't indulge in a religious argument. Religious convictions do not stand against an order of this court. We must render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's. And today we're dealing with Caesar." He ordered that the parents be locked up until the three teen-agers are turned over to the children's home...
...regretful voice, he read a five-page statement. "I feel sorry for you," said Harris. "You are to be pitied, in my opinion, because I think you have been used as a tool in this unfortunate mess. It seems to me that the best possible service that you could render now as a member of the Federal Communications Commission would be to submit your resignation." It was a verdict that was a partial vindication for Mack's chief accuser, Dr. Bernard Schwartz, the contentious New York University law professor who got fired as the subcommittee's chief counsel...
...Canal. "More and more," T.R. adjured Congress in 1902, "the increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world." T.R. began to keep the peace with a big stick. With a threat of intervention by the Fleet, he effectively warned rampaging German Kaiser Wilhelm II away from Venezuela. He landed U.S. forces in Santo Domingo to forestall European atempts to "collect debts," put U.S. agents backed up by marines to work at the customs houses, collected enough revenue to pay the debts, then withdrew...
...Assembly to bar university professors from politics, authorize the forcible retirement of judges unsympathetic to the government, and establish heavy fines and prison sentences for newsmen whose writings could be considered "harmful to the political or financial prestige of the state." Today, even use of the word "inflation" may render a Turkish newsman subject to prosecution...