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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailors. In Westminster Cathedral, Cardinal Kinsley celebrated High Mass. The King's chaplain, the Reverend Pat McCormick, preached to tense crowds at the Coliseum, famed London vaudeville house. To his munitions workers, now on a seven-day week. Lord Nuffield declared that every man should take for his text on Sunday: "Work and pray...
...century that fulcrum has been supplied by the scholarship of John Henry Wigmore. First published in 1904, his Treatise on Evidence is recognized by lawyers as one of the most important legal works ever produced in the U. S. Cited by the courts as often as any text, it has provided a standard source from which judges and lawyers can ascertain the origin, reason and status of the rules of evidence. Useless rules, ill-trained judges, an unskilled bar are the targets of its clarity. The third and final revised edition of the Treatise, now published...
...distortion of the facts." British newspapers (except the Times of London) carried extracts from it and demanded greater frankness from the High Command. Correspondent Stowe and his employers squeezed their "beat" for every drop of blood, even claimed that the Chamberlain Government might have fallen had the full Stowe text reached the British public...
...military blunders, they uncritically dislike Washington's critics Jefferson, Lee, Gates, Sam Adams, the Conway Cabal, et al. But their biography is the most compact and exact thus far (with 130 pages of notes which, as usual in scholarly biographies, are frequently more interesting than the text). And they display real imaginativeness in portraying Washington as a great, human central figure against his remote 18th-Century background...
...instructor but the effect their expression has on the quality of the instruction. As a Mil Sci student, I am forced to say that the quality of instruction has degenerated to the point where it consists of some rereading in class of the text and the showing of a few dated movies. This is the real harm in the relegation of instruction to a secondary position in comparison to the reading of emotional political articles...