Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Roberts deserted the Liberals to give the Conservatives their majority. Declaring that neither the Constitution nor Congress made arms-bearing a requirement of citizenship, the Chief Justice protested: "When one's belief collides with the power of the State, the latter is supreme within its sphere and submission or punishment follows. But, in the forum of conscience, duty to a moral power higher than the State has always been maintained. . . . If such a man is to be barred, it should be in unequivocal terms and not in such a way as to give admission to a host...
...decision of Columbia University to put all intercollegiate athletics under the central control of the institution itself is another sensible attempt to put collegiate sport in its proper perspective. This change places athletics within the sphere of the regular college curriculum...
...policies of the government," Michael Karpovich, of the department of Government, who served in the Kerensky provisional government after the revolution, stated in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The present system may be better termed an experiment in political dictatorship than an essay into a new economic sphere," he continued...
...direction. When vocational specialization is carried down into a man's early years he can not form the general background necessary for a balanced life. If industry pursues this policy it will do so to its own disadvantage, for efficiency is reduced when the worker is limited to the sphere of his machine...
There are two theories as to the sphere of activities for such clubs. The first and more passive one of having lectures on controversial questions and social problems is perhaps the saner and more beneficial method. It satisfies the desire for tolerance and free speech, but on account of its very passivity and sanity it fails to give the true radical a sense of striving towards the goal which will arise from the new order. The second method consists in actual participation in the reform movements by mass meetings of protest, presentation of petitions, or even furnishing bail for less...