Word: unthought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with this intellectual curiosity, however, accorded ill with the egalitarian, humanist principles expounded in the classrooms. Most of the professors, Bromage and many of her classmates maintain, had the assumption that their women students would meet good husbands, Harvard men perhaps--and what better fate than that? "It was unthought of that we should go out and do something--we might be bright women to have around but we were never seriously considered as competitors," Bromage adds...
Unsure of himself and his field, such a lawyer often bogs courts down in otiose efforts to cover every unthought-of contingency; or, at the opposite extreme, he may sink a client's case by missing a critical point. After 42 years as a practicing lawyer and judge, Burger has sadly concluded that perhaps as many as one-half of all lawyers who appear in American courts are incompetent. Last week, in a speech at Fordham Law School, the Chief declared that it was high time special additional training and testing be required before a lawyer may call himself...