Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Dec. 16, under the report of the trial of Lord de Clifford, you say, "Under the Magna Charta it is the right of every Briton to be tried by his peers-i. e. . . . a lord by the House of Lords." Why does TIME imply that this right originated in the Magna Charta? The right of a lord to be tried by his peers was just as much the law during the reign of William the Conqueror as during the reign of King John. This custom originated in the early Middle Ages and was the right of every vassal (lord...
...much success did Albert B. Sabin, Peter Kosciusko Olitsky & Harold R. Cox of the Rockefeller Institute have from spraying weak solutions of tannic acid or alum into the nostrils of monkeys that they boldly urged "a trial in man of these chemicals in the prevention of poliomyelitis during epidemics...
...Bounty". It's strong, stern drama, but there's nothing crude or melodramatic about it. For the villain is a hero when he pits his will against the sea, and the hero looks just a little villainish when he revels in tropical warmth while some of his partners face trial and punishment...
...minds about how or whether to take him, Dorothy proposed a trial trip to Paris together-purely platonic. As the train pulled out of London's Victoria Station, according to his invariable custom Bennett changed to his "traveling hat"- "a round affair of tweed with a soft brim, peculiarly endearing." Records Dorothy Cheston: "I remember that I felt curiously responsible, as though I were traveling with bullion." In Paris something happened that decided her heart: every morning Bennett would call for her, bearing a bunch of white flowers which he had bought at a stall on the corner...
Pepys naturally made plenty of enemies, and they used the Popish Plot conspiracy of Titus Gates to get even with him. Accused of implication in a political murder, he was arrested, imprisoned in the Tower, faced with trial for his life. With characteristic energy he methodically tracked down every piece of false evidence, finally cleared himself. In building up his hero Biographer Bryant does not overplay his hand. He admits that Pepys. after the death of his wife, "formed a connection" with one Mary Skinner, that he delighted in the emoluments and furbelows of his high office, that he accepted...