Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...awake to settle the disposition of his dust. The whole matter is trivial, but for those who are inclined to be dreamy and sentimental--which includes the whole world for moments at a time this fame and fortune of a braggard, which transcends our centuries, has a glory and scope fraught with opportunity for golden musing. Idle it is, but pleasant...
...main purpose of these concessions was to prevent the possibility of a large American owned and controlled rubber development in Panama, sufficient in scope to make America independent of the present British monopoly of the world's crude rubber...
...ideal is that education may be free from pedantry, that the facts necessary for scholarly reputation in a subject be not forced upon the casual student caring only for its cosmic position, at the expense of an understanding of its scope and color. All students, save those with professional intent are casual as compared with their instructors; wherefore the instructor must assume two distinct beings, the scholar and the teacher. In the one he must be thorough systematic; in the other he must own a genius for stepping outside of himself to correctly apportion, emphasize, and attract...
Discussing "The Scope and Purpose of Legal Research," Dean Pound said: "In an age of expanding trade the operations of business could not be confined by the straight jacket of legal conceptions and legal institutions worked out for the simpler commercial conditions of Feudal England. Then it took an act of Parliament to bring courts to recognize an established instrument of commerce. Today a simple legislative act will seldom suffice. Also today the economic structure is so complex and so delicate that we cannot wait for things to work themselves out at a great cost in friction and waste...
...Experience is showing that these expedients are by no means diminishing friction nor eliminating waste. In the end we shall have to fall back upon careful, continuous, scientific research for the underlying conditions, for the limits and scope of the problem, for the materials available for solutions, for the factors involved in each solution, and for the means of making our legal solutions effective in action when devised and formulated...