Word: trammels
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John S. Thompson, Wisconsin alumni secretary (quoting an earlier resolution of Wisconsin regents) : " 'Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state university of Wisconsin should ever encourage that fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone truth may be found...
...consideration was that Mr. Stone was confirmed as an Associate Justice, 71 to 6. The only Senators who voted against him were Heflin and Trammel (Democrats), Norris and Frazier (Insurgent Republicans), Shipstead and Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Laborites). Senators Wheeler and Walsh, both of Montana, asked to be excused from voting. With the exception of Messrs. Norris and Frazier (and Senator LaFollette, now in Florida for his health, but who, it was announced, would have voted against Mr. Stone), the Insurgent Republicans lined up with their Regular colleagues and with the bulk of the Democrats to settle the matter decisively...
...college press is unanimous in the opinion that the present editors of the Era have succeeded in shaking off every trammel except that of overweening self-conceit, and that the value of the paper has been indirectly proportional to the success of its editors...