Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weight of precedent, few principles in U.S. law should be better settled than the right of federal judges to enforce their orders and judgments by criminal-contempt penalties, assessed without juries. Yet last week the Supreme Court itself came perilously close to denuding the judiciary of its summary criminal-contempt powers. In 1789 the First Congress, following common-law practice, specifically granted federal courts the power "to punish by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of said courts, all contempts of authority in any cause or hearing before the same." In 1890 the Supreme Court declared: "If it has ever...
...familiar succession of events came painfully alive in the mimed drama. Jesus wiping the blood from his face, writhing under the lash, stumbling beneath the weight of the cross, sweating with the pain of the nails, looked disconcertingly human. In all this abrasive immediacy, the mystery of God incarnate was largely lost, but the gain in impact was obviously a revelation to viewers. Last week, as BBC tallied up the mass of mail, Producer Michael Reddington reported that "all of it was enthusiastic, except for a few stuffy clergymen who couldn't be expected to approve...
...that matter foreign trade, as paramount issues at the very moment the people are much more interested in unemployment compensation and public works." By way of showing that he stands second to none in taking care of the folks back home, Mike Mansfield put his great weight behind a $45,000 proposal to send the Flathead County (Mont.) High School's a cappella choir to the international fair in Brussels...
...Hulls about TB, though state law requires drugless-healers to report such cases to public health officials. Instead, he prescribed hot and cold compresses to increase her absorption of water. Though Mrs. Hull had weighed only 108 Ibs. and continued to lose, Carroll did not keep track of her weight. She went on ten-day fasts, during which she took nothing but water. Five months later, Doris Hull died of starvation and tuberculosis. She weighed...
...weight of 4.5 Ibs. per gallon to hold down the amount of air manufacturers whip into their product. ¶ A minimum of 1.6 Ibs. of solid substance per gallon to avoid too much water and not enough cream. ¶ Real fruit flavors for sherbets and water ices. Artificially colored products must be clearly labeled...