Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very much surprised, and not at all pleased to discover that my signature had been forged to one of the lists and I thought you might be interested enough to start a thorough investigation of such terrible goings on. There is nothing, I should like to see in your little paper more than a tally of the genuine signatures and those creations of an imaginative Republican with somewhat criminal tendencies...
...this, of course, may be on the wrong track. Conceivably, John Harvard's mother and Shakespere may have been unacquainted neighbors. But the peculiar circumstances are certainly inviting of speculation, especially to those who like to see striking relationships among great men. In any event, however. It is pleasing to think that the remembrance of his early association with the imperial poet may have influenced the founder of Harvard College to forward learning in the New World...
...Supreme Court, a graduate of Harvard in the Class of 1861, is now the oldest man who has ever sat on the bench of this highest tribunal of the nation. At eighty-seven years of age he passes the record of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, his ability to see the whole as well as the minutiae of legal disputes undimmed by the years. Many lawyers have found in him a new keenness of attack, born since he left behind the retiring age of seventy. He has never been a didacticist; the law has always been a tool...
...When I think of the law I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux, eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening past-figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by which mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...
...course, we fully realize the difficulties of our position, but we have no doubt that the well-known good sense of the average American voter will make him see the advantages of our offer...