Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light with startling vividness with the announcement that there are now three Wolffs and an orang outang to assist delinquent students over the scholastic bumps. Whether the latest addition to Clan Wolff will be tutored by his playmate Peter or whether he will cast aside the paternal yoke and resort to the tutoring note method of self-erudition has not yet been disclosed...
...last resort it is expected that they will file claims for the cost of gasoline for the squad cars, for one gross of tear gas bombs, one book entitled "How to Break Up a Riot," and two broken policemen's clubs...
...efforts have not been completely successful. It seems that the time has about come-indeed, it has already arrived-when we should give careful consideration to that subject. . . . Insofar as I am informed, we have about exhausted the sources of taxation to which Congress is willing and able to resort...
Cool and self-confident was Premier Nahas for he knew he had the whip hand. Egypt off her own bat can legally renounce the capitulatory privileges of any power as she did in 1923 in Russia's case. The Premier preferred not to resort to highhandedness, yet it was crystal-clear to the delegates that he had won his battle before he started. The nub of the discussion was whether or not Egypt would be willing to abolish capitulations by slow degrees...
Manhattan Lawyer McKelvey, now 74, reviews the first 50 years of law reviews. [To the charge that law reviews are "stupid, dry, uninteresting . . . unleavened with humor," he answers: "Who would be likely to resort to a legal periodical for his humor? Certainly not a lawyer or judge. . . . The law review . . . [is] the vehicle of thought between legal scholars and the practitioners and judges...