Word: thrustings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decisions of the two teachers of law, the world situation has altered profoundly. It is now an open question whether democracy and the system of jurisprudence which is associated with it can meet successfully the ever more difficult tasks which the momentous economic and political forces of our day thrust upon them. It is no longer sufficient that a law school transmit the accumulated body of legal knowledge and give proficient training in legal practice. If the bar and bench are not to be a dead hand upon the process of social and economic readjustment and invention with which...
...Hall "heartily" endorsed the Roosevelt-Garner ticket and the State was startled by a report that, if ousted, Mayor Walker would run for Governor this autumn. Sheathed in this move, if made, would be something that Governor Roosevelt does not like to think about: the knife that Tammany could thrust into the back of his New York City vote for the Presidency...
...killing floor he is hoisted up on a giant wheel by his left foot, delivered to a conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes off his hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves off his head. Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers and his toenails go clattering...
...result of this last finding, Counsel Seabury thrust the boldest forensic stroke of his inquiry: "I say the Mayor of this city cannot buy stock or hold stock in a company that has city contracts. It is ground for removal, and it has been so held, and it is so provided in Section 1.533 of the City Charter...
...lead a long-desired contemplative life, work uninterruptedly on his history of English 17th Century Contemplative Livers. The other officers agitate escape, burrow tunnels while he burrows in his books. Against his better contemplation he joins the others in trying to escape. They are foiled, but escape is thrust upon him from an unexpected direction...