Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GROWTH OF THE LAW-Benjamin N. Cardozo, LL.D.-Yale University Press ($1.75), must be regarded as a supplement to The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921) by the same author. Both volumes represent lectures given at the Yale Law School. The Scope. The text with which Judge Cardozo begins and ends The Growth of the Law is: "Law must be stable and yet it cannot stand still." An understanding of this text, he points out, requires a thorough consideration of "the philosophy of function" in relation to "the authority of precedent." The chapter headings give the best brief idea...
...Scope. Under the general direction of its London headquarters, the Army is fighting in 61 countries. Its personnel numbers nearly 85,000 officers and men, not including 28,150 brass bandsmen. The Army's morale is fed by 80 periodicals in 35 languages; and its annual victories over Sin range from 225,000 to 275,000.† Its financial resources are not correspondingly great. The Eastern territorial division of the American Army, for example, lists 18 millions of assets against seven of liabilities; its headquarters building in the wholesale district of Manhattan represents 15 of the 18 millions...
...students of high school grade from all over the country participated. As a result of the success of last year's contest, Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan of New York city have provided funds, not only to duplicate the high school contest this year, but to enlarge its scope by adding the contest for college and university undergraduates...
Professor Moore, Chairman of the Board of Preachers and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, discussed religion in college. "Religion does not consist merely in going to chapel", he said, "but has infinitely greater scope than that. Try and grasp its substance while you are in college...
...Japan, the United States has but 10; and that in ocean-going submarines and airplane-carriers, our position is still more disadvantageous. We must not let praise for the good intent that lay behind the Washington Conference blind us to the partial and in- adequate character of its scope and results." At Topeka, Mr. Davis, in a number of rear-platform speeches, turned his attention for the first time to Mr. LaFollette: "It is conceivable-I do not believe it probable-that the Republican Party may win . . . It is conceivable -and I think it is probable-that the Democratic Party...