Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preparation of simple affidavits. The decision is of importance to the legal profession. Miss Brandeis appeared on behalf of Margolin, who had charged a fee of $1,500 on a contingent basis. Her brief said in part: "The professional services rendered by the petitioner included numerous conferences, communications, a trip to Washington from New York, elaborate investigation there and the discovery, by virtue of the attorney's effort and energy, of the proof necessary to establish and recover a claim of $9,000, which will, with interest, amount to the sum of $12,360. The compensation for professional services...
...most part the closing sessions of the meeting were long-winded, poorly attended, devoted to talk of peace and security. But the delegates were out in force for a trip to Mount Vernon and for a banquet given by the U. S. delegation at the Mayflower Hotel...
...most important feature of the whole trip was a stone church found on the way home at Gotthaab, Greenland, which he was certain had been erected by early Norsemen. It was finely preserved; the walls, laid without cement, being smooth as a ship's deck. It had evidently served as a fortress, with peepholes for windows. Ruined homesteads lay near. Next summer MacMillan will investigate the Gotthaab remains more fully, and other remains on an island near Labrador, to establish the route by which the Vikings penetrated his native New England...
...visiting debaters have already taken their bachelor degrees at Oxford, and are classed as graduate students. Each of the three has had a term as President of the Oxford Union, and they are all on their first trip to this country...
...English trio will remain in Boston until October 20. On that date they will oppose Wellesley in the eighth debate of the trip. Following this debate, the Britishers will journey to New Haven where Yale is to join them in a "split debate" on the intriguing subject. "Resolved. That ignorance is bliss...