Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vetoing a measure causes a President more calculation than thought. Important vetoes have grave political bearing. The power is so nearly absolute. Not more than 50 vetoes have been overridden in the U. S. history. Fifteen of them were President Johnson's (1865-69), and he was working on a Reconstruction (Post-Civil-War) program opposite to that desired by Congress...
...Atlantic Monthly for June Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of the Law School follows a familiar trail of thought to the conclusion that the task of judgement "is not to fit the penal treatment to an abstract crime but to a concrete criminal." In his newly published "The Delinquent Boy: A Socio-Psychological Study" Doctor John Slawson says that the first necessity of the juvenile court is "to treat the offender by the scientific investigation of the mental, environmental and physical antecedents which might have led up to the anti-social act." Judge Ben Lindsey, and less interviewed magistrates, have proved...
Memorial Day, in a very earnest address, President Hibben of Princeton welcomed the students to the new $2,200,000 chapel whose doors he had just opened with a scriptural adjuration. "Beauty," he said to them, "is not an empty form. It has its content both of thought and feeling. It is an attribute of God himself . . . We believe that this chapel will fulfill another function than that of corporate worship, that it will prove to be for many a house of refuge in time of trouble and distress...
...cried the citizen's wife gazing at the cause of the alarm, "and I always thought Mr. Morgan would look out for his sister, no matter what the financial emergency...
...cleared off at lunch. In long sheds filled with betting machines men and women stood in line to put their money on the mud-horses-Distraction, Bonivan, Bobashela, Toro. Some liked outsiders-Petee Wrack at 20 to 1, Rumplestiltskin, Sun Beau. Some liked the English colt, Strolling Player. Many thought that Misstep was just as good as Reigh Count and maybe better. Finally when the 22 starters paraded to the barrier, and were sent off, some people yelled, some wept, and some turned pale. "Misstep!" they shouted. "Reigh Count...