Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human affairs to the common denominator of justice are commendable in principle but occasionally laughable in practice. In a neighboring state, the Attorney Ceneral prosecuting a liquor case rhetorically asks, "Who is stronger, the bootleg ring or the state of Rhode Island?" only to have the jury return a verdict of not guilty. And to pitch the question on a more adventurous plane, even now a governmental quibble arises concerning payment of duty on pictures taken by Byrd at the North Pole. Thus does the energy and initiative of aerial explorers whittle down to $12 due the customs authorities...
...jury deliberated, returned a verdict of not guilty. Lawyer Darrow had again gilded his unique reputation by securing an acquittal against heavy odds, emphasizing by repetition his statement that "courts are cockpits in which lawyers may fight." There is a peculiar consistency in his defense of the hopelessly lost, of the rich and poor alike, of the underdog who is under because of inexorable gyrations of fate, which indicates that his motives are of noble origin. Or perhaps the grey and stooped veteran laughs behind his ugly face when he sees the jury succumbing to his harangue...
...against Dartmouth last Saturday, when the powerful University track squad piled up a commanding lead in the running events to win 83 1-4 to 51 3-4 in the annual dual meeting with the Green athletes and the Hanover first-year baseball team lost a 10 to 4 verdict to the Freshman nine. At the same time the Crimson lacrosse team downed the Hanoverians. In the remainder of the baseball program Pennsylvania retaliated for last week's defeat at the hands of the University diamond squad by squeezing out a tight 2 to 1 victory against the pitching...
...Senior year." That Junior divisionals would bring about this result may be seriously questioned. The Student Council Committee drew up a very large program for distinction men in Senior year, and if the opposing faculty members had this in mind (as they must have had to vote intelligently) their verdict is certainly the highest praise that has yet come the way of the college loafer...
...Minikin they possess a clean-up batter of no mean efficacy, for in eleven trips to the plate he has slashed out no less than seven hits of assorted sizes. Either Crowley or Beach will toe the rubber against the Crimson this afternoon, the latter having the only Springfield verdict to his credit...