Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were assembling the material on Giuliano, a second letter ar rived requesting the same information. It was from Leon R. Sinclair Jr. who, it turned out, was the attorney for the defense in the case. We sent the opposing attorneys tearsheets of TIME and LIFE stories on the subject and additional news from our morgue file on Giuliano, and, to satisfy our curiosity, asked our Hart ford string correspondent to find out what was going on at Norfolk Center School...
According to Teacher Willis E. Anderson, the subject of Giuliano arose via a report presented by one of the 29 pupils at the morning program period, which they plan and conduct. Another pupil doubted that the outlaw was a "Robin Hood" and, after investigating the deeds of the original hero of Sherwood Forest, a majority of the class agreed. The rest dissented so vigorously that it was decided to try Giuliano for murder, one of the Italian Government's charges against him. A judge, jury, prosecutor, defense attorney, defendant, etc. were appointed, and the class then took...
...nibbles in his office. He reads incessantly, even props a book before him as he shaves, always carries an Oxford Book of Verse on his travels, collects volumes on fishing* and military science, stages reading debates with himself-i.e., follows simultaneously three or four books on the same subject but with different slants...
...tells of a counterfeiter who became so puffed with success that he began putting his own picture on the currency he printed. Husky, 26-year-old Elphinstone Forest Gilmour was not a counterfeiter but a student of entomology whose interest in his subject earned him the right to prowl at will among the 13 million beetles in South Kensington's Natural History Museum. Gilmour joined the Royal Entomological Society, wrote for the society's journal a knowing discourse on a black and yellow beetle called Tmesisternus laterimaculatus. He boasted that the beetle was "unique in my own collection...
...feel that although the authorities cannot be accused of "overemphasizing" sports, there is a regrettable overemphasis on the subject in the minds of people like "the Harvard man" of whom I spoke earlier. Moreover, there is a distressing number of these "Harvard men," although many of them cannot be easily identified as such. Still, all of them, whether attired in grey or not, assume a cleancut, fanatic, and dangerously belligerent attitude when discussing sports...