Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climbed a four-motored Imperial Airways airplane. For some 650 miles it sped across the Gulf of Siam to Saigon in French Indo-China, then 350 miles on to Tourane, finally another 550 miles straight across the South China Sea to Hong Kong. Thus, in the first of six trial flights, Imperial Airways Ltd. sprouted a new branch from its main stem between London and Australia. Carrying passengers and mail, the new service will run twice a week, is significant because it brings the trans-Asian airline within 80 miles of Macao, now planned as the terminus of Pan American...
...criminal libel. The charge: that an epidemic of suicides at a nearby Army post had led him to compare that post's commander to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler. By direction of the court, Publisher Rounsevell was acquitted (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week Defendant Rounsevell went on trial again-this time for an editorial stating that the commanding general of the Canal Department was incompetent to investigate his subordinates. The prosecution demanded that an example be made to prevent "future sadistic libels." The jury agreed. When the court sentenced him to pay $500 or spend 90 days in jail...
...musty, grey, inadequate courtroom on the fourth floor of the Federal Building, packed, even without spectators, by lawyers of whom the defendants had 20 present, headed by onetime Senator James A. Reed, the trial, delayed all summer by the defense because one of the defendants, Warner Executive Abel Gary Thomas, was ill, finally began with the selection of a jury. To decide a problem whose ramifications have taxed the best brains of the cinema industry and the U. S. Government for the last 15 years, prosecution and defense agreed upon a dozen sleepy-looking Missouri citizens who included a garage...
Starting at the same time as the Varsity, an untried Freshman team will race over a two-mile course, finishing in front of Newell. Among the yearling harriers who showed up well in the time trial are Richard C. Babb, Roswell Brayton, George P. Gardner, III, Alfred J. Hanion, Jr., Frederick C. Hinman, and Francis R. King...
...five months Referee Cragen thumbed through dictionaries, scratched his pate, learned enough about lexicology to state that "the English language is not on trial." Said he: "If the court could sit in judgment on the dictionary, every one of the 40,000 contestants could come into court, contending that his or her list was the proper winning roster of words. . . ." Last week, having boiled down the case to the real issue of whether or not the contest judges had fraudulently deleted words from Gillman's roster, Referee Cragen dismissed the suit with a two-letter word...