Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enterprise, one of the four yachts built to compete for the right to race with Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V: a trial in Long Island Sound with the Resolute, cup defender in 1920, by 10 min., 30 sec. over a 22-mi. course. In a later race, with Harold Vanderbilt sailing her and the Vanitie as an added starter, she won again, this time by eight minutes...
...Bronx County, N. Y., police clapped one Sallen Haten, charged with forgery, into jail. Undismayed. Sallen Haten caused "Situation Wanted" advertisements to appear in newsheets: "Sales analysis, sales promotion and customer's control man, writes effective and productive sales letters and campaigns ... at present awaiting trial in jail...
...questioner Max Meyer. Missouri's psychologist, will be tried by the school from which he was banished for a year because of his sex questionnaire Reason for the trial: He read before a psychology society a paper complaining of the Missouri attitude. Missouri is not like Harvard, an institution where scholars may go and work with the assurance of freedom in teaching and research and the security of tenure granted in the ranking universities of the country...
...ineffective. ... In a case where . . . the article was grossly libelous and the plaintiff a man of excellent reputation . . . there should be a verdict for substantial damages. ... A verdict for 6? in this case can be accounted for only by reason of the rule of damages enunciated by the trial court. . . . Judgment . . . reversed. . . . New trial." Wrong Picture. In Cuyahoga county, Ohio, last fortnight a Court of Appeals cleared the Cleveland Press of a charge of libel in mistakenly printing the photograph of a person other than the one described in the accompanying news text. Said the court: "There...
...after he had studied some Biblical engravings. He righteously abandoned the painting of nudes after he had learned to do them splendidly. It is not difficult to imagine how he would have regarded the story, pieced together from rumors, which was being circulated last week while his grandson awaited trial. The story...