Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More important is the fact that no excuse will be accepted after the exam has ended. "We must know about it before the examination rather than afterwards," Dr. Bock warned. This enables the Medical Department or a physician to pronounce a verdict before it is too late...
...Herbert and Edward Horton compete for honors in the comic relief, and the verdict goes to the former. An hospitable divorce, living on alimony, Mr. Herbert always cashes his guests' checks, but has a "No Funds" stamp of his own to save him the trouble of going to the bank. The plaster on his little farmhouse was somewhat cracked, "but it reflects my personality. Whoo-whoo...
...smoke-filled committee rooms at Washington the Ramspeck bill is, of course, singularly unpopular; in the nation at large, however, a different verdict is rendered. The most notorious of Jacksonian institutions must be destroyed. However great the senatorial inertia, however difficult the abandonment of old practices, however pleasant the rewarding of loyal friends with the juicy plums of public office, the day of judgement is at hand. Civil service reform has been postponed long enough; the time for action has arrived...
...gaining the verdict the Harvard orators contended that union racketeering would not be ended by incorporation because they would still retain the threat of striking and that conciliation by peaceful means is the solution to labor controversies...
...peak of the Uinta Mts. 51 miles east of Salt Lake City, killing 19, a Bureau of Air Commerce Investigating Board was en route to the scene before rescuers reached the shattered ship (TIME, Oct. 25 et seq.). Last week, in record time, their verdict was reached. It did not specifically mention "pilot error," did little to dispel the belief of many airmen that Earl Woodgerd, a notably careful pilot, believed all was well and he was safe on his course up to the moment he flew full speed into the mountainside. The verdict: "It is the opinion...