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...peoples of the world until they have learned to understand and respect it. He knows too that understanding and respect begin at home. He originated the the idea of the first Law Day as an opportunity for lawyers and laymen, too long carried headlong in the seething, exciting torrent of codes and laws, to take reflective inventory, to study and ponder the law's past and its present-from which it must derive its future...
...page report that the Church of England avoid opposing birth control. "The more we understand of our procreative powers," said the report, "the more responsible we are for the way in which we use them. If our conscience will not tolerate, when we know how to prevent it, a torrent of infant deaths, no more should we, with the knowledge we have, encourage an ungoverned spate of unwanted births...
...Skaubryn plowed through the long swells of the Indian Ocean, six days south of Suez, bound for Australia with 1,088 passengers-mostly German and Maltese emigrants-and a crew of 200. At 8:45 p.m. trouble broke out in the engine room. A disconnected fuel line spurted a torrent of oil ?. onto red-hot exhaust pipes. Within seconds, the engine room was a coiling mass of flames. The engine-room crew were driven out before they could even shut off the spurting...
...Dyck gained freshness and spontaneity by painting directly on the canvas after only the barest preliminary sketches. His armed soldiers enter the picture like a torrent, then eddy about the calm figure of Christ...
Still confident that the U.S. economy will soon turn upward, still determined to avoid desperation moves that might bring on a red-ink torrent for years to come, President Eisenhower was nonetheless deeply concerned about the human dislocations of the recession...