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...result of defeats by Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Princeton, Army, and Yale. Possibly at its meeting scheduled for December 3, but more probably later in the year, the Committee must find some solution. What is this to be? Is Harvard to send its scouts to the high schools in search of potential All-American material and to have its football squad practice until 6.30 o'clock every day? Or, is Harvard to continue to subsist on the scanty fare of an annual victory over New Hampshire? Either alternative is undesirable in the extreme, and it is the task of the Committee...
...likes of the Justices is a gross exaggeration. As Justice Cardozo pointed out in an essay, the job of the courts is to apply the Constitution and the law in cases where they are obviously meant to apply. In other cases it may be necessary for the Court to search for the intent that was behind a law to fit a particular case. Then interpretation comes into play. It comes still more into prominence when a case arises which the law has not foreseen and about which the framers of the law had really no intention. In such cases...
...Andrei had in his breast pockets plans of the palace, its secret entrances and those sliding panels which have enabled Rumanian Royalty to pass with such discretion from one bedchamber to another. Next day police, gendarmes and detectives raided scores of hotels, restaurants and clubs, stopped railway trains to search passengers to the skin. By nightfall Spy Andrei had been joined in jail by over 5,000 suspects...
...Minnehaha to Britain with a heavy cargo of TNT. Several days out of New York he received a radiogram from the U.S. Navy Department to the effect that a bomb hidden aboard his ship was timed to explode that very noon. Captain Claret ordered the crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm when at 12:30 the forward deck suddenly erupted. By some miracle...
That discovery accelerated the search for a vaccine which could immunize children against infantile paralysis. Blood of persons who have survived the disease contains invisible substances called antibodies which neutralize the virus. Hence they are immune. When serum from such blood is injected into a child's veins, the child also becomes immune...