Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legal involutions and complexities are interesting if taken in small doses. And they have never been more naively (or more publicly) exploited than in the trial of the California apostle Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson. Until the jury renders a verdict one cannot help matters by passing private judgment on the lady; but one may--and millions of newspaper readers do--derive considerable entertainment from the agile antics of her lawyers. In fact out of the various journalistic menus which have been served the public continuously for seven months the McPherson affair wears the best...
...evidence in the main case which the defense did not question. After studying the Madeiros testimony for several weeks, and all the records in the trial, Judge Thayer is forced to the conclusion that the affidavit is "unreliable, untrustworthy and untrue," and that to set aside a verdict of a jury affirmed by the Supreme Judicial Court on such ground would be a mockery upon truth and justice...
...wager or debate in the late nineties was, "Can any outfit stop the Pennsylvania 'guards back'?" And the sons of the same pessimistic gentlemen who offered to eat the first steamboat that ever crossed the Atlantic invariably answered, "It can't be done!" In other words, the general verdict was that when an irresistible force met an immovable object, the object stopped being immovable, and that was doubtless a part of Mr. Woodruff's philosophy when he engineered the inception of the smashing drive that no line seemed able to withstand...
Professor Daly's thesis, thus briefly summarized, is a synthesis of the cosmogony of Jeans and Jeffreys, the Wegener-Taylor hypothesis of drifting continents, and his own ideas concerning mountain-building and the origin of igenous rocks. No intelligent verdict concerning its accuracy can be made until the many speculations on which it is frankly based have been properly evaluated and adequately tested. The book now in hand is a transcript of a course of semi-popular lectures delivered by its author to a non-technically-trained audience at the Lowell Institute, and it therefore does not contain full statements...
...incident resulting from our false hypothesis of conduct:" This is what the "conchy" brother and all the rest of his kind were saying before the fight began, and it is an opinion that the world in general is just beginning to sceptically examine. In a word it is the verdict against nationalism and its attendant evils of patriotism and imperialism that, one may risk saying, may have reached their climax in the late...