Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pierce Butler dissenting, the Supreme Court ruled that the principle sustaining compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. It affirmed the state's right to call upon defectives for "sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned"; said the operation involved no "serious" pain or "substantial" danger. Concerning "discrimination," the Supreme Court said that the law could not be criticized for failing to reach all defectives when it was seeking to include them "so far and so fast" as its means allowed. Fifteen other* have laws similar to the Virginia statute. Supreme Court...
David Lloyd George (launching the serious Liberal attack upon the bill): "The details of this measure are dangerous and in some in stances obscure [proceeding to review them]. ... It is my final conviction that had this bill been law last year, it would not have shortened the General Strike by one hour...
...occupancy of the chair of mathematics at Boone University, Wuchang, directly across the Yangtze River from Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.) where Chinese caused Britons to evacuate their $60,000,000 concession. Said Eye-witness Hobbie: "We had no idea that the disturbance in China was so serious until we picked up the American newspapers. . . . "Shortly before I left Wuchang a representative body of our students approached our Dean, Mr. Wei, and stated that they had been commanded by the students' union to make certain demands from the university. They asked Mr. Wei to suggest to them what...
...with which George Eliot herself regarded it. As a matter of fact Miss Haldane does not have the talent for "human interest"; she gives the background of Mary Ann Evans in a thoughtful and competent style, but she does not attempt to give color and sparkle to an essentially serious story Yet in the end the figure of the brilliant, high-minded woman emerges, the writer who as she was one of the most retiring of the great novelists of the last century, saw deeper, perhaps, below the surface of life than any of them...
...Donaghy '29, though his average suffered a serious drop, still leads the regular clouters with a mark of an even .400. Henry Chauncey '27, his nearest rival, rose rapidly during the week, his drives including a home run off Slayton of New Hampshire, and with his .383 average now threatens the leadership of the sophomore shortstop...