Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haven't pretended to establish a test for poetry," he said. "There is no test for poetry like that for a Democrat, which is very simple; if a man goes around proclaiming himself to be against trial by jury, and professing lack of faith in the intelligence of the common man, he is no Democrat...
...Night of January 16th" is the murder-mystery, in which the author has relieved himself of the painful necessity of arriving at a conclusion. With an impartiality which would do credit to a magistrate Ayn Rand has written his play in the form of a court trial and arranged things so that the verdict is given by a jury selected from the audience. Thus, as the author tells us, it is really the audience who is on trial. This may or may not be drama, but it certainly makes for a pleasant theatrical picnic...
Irak. On a plain beside the muddy Tigris lies Tepe Gawra ("Great Mound") in which trial trenches have indicated 20 or more settlements extending far back into the Stone Age. After clearing the Eleventh Level with gratifying results (TIME, March 18, 1935), Digger Charles Bache proceeded with the Twelfth Level, dated at 4000 B. C. Here were massive walls coated with plaster, earliest known use of lime, and much pottery decorated with reddish geometrical designs, presumably left by "The Painted Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property...
...Mohawk suits were to have gone to trial this week in a U. S. District Court in Manhattan. Two days before, the company announced its offer to settle with both Mohawk and Morro Castle plaintiffs out of court. The trial was then adjourned, and the lawyers representing the claimants indicated that virtually all their clients would accept...
...give. The Spanish ambassador was howling for Ralegh's blood, insisted on James's handing the culprit over that he might be publicly hanged in Spain. James would have done that, too, if public opinion had let him. Instead he put Ralegh through the farce of another trial, and when Ralegh's brilliant self-defense made the prosecution look silly, had him condemned on the old charge of treason-from which he had been reprieved but never technically pardoned...