Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first "due process" amendment was originally intended to give the individual citizen protection against political tyranny by the Federal Government. Because it dealt in abstractions, the Supreme Court, by interpretations, had wide latitude in defining such relative terms as "reasonable," "arbitrary" and "legitimate." Thus a century of evolution transformed the 5th Amendment into a weapon with which the Court could suppress any regulatory experiments by Congress of which it disapproved. In the hands of the Supreme Court the 5th Amendment wrecked an effort to establish a minimum wage law for women in the District of Columbia, on the ground that...
...state that my invention is a double steel-plated box fitted about the pilot seat. It is about 2 ft. wide and 6 ft. long, specially riveted and equipped with shock absorbers. It has a door worked by levers so that as the machine is crashing a pull may close this door, hermetically sealing the pilot as if in a diving bell, with freedom from danger of fire or explosions. . . . Everyone knows that in a fall in a hydraulically operated elevator the force of the shock is absorbed as the elevator strikes the bottom of the shaft. . . . My plane might...
...which took you there); under the hood of your motorbus; on the hot water tap in your bathroom. If you travel by airline anywhere in Europe the odds are 2-to-1 that the name of Junkers is on your plane. Last week the Junkers name was in world-wide headlines. The Junkers Aircraft Company was on the verge of receivership...
...encountered in telegraph-reports. Years of use have made it a symbol to be woven into obituaries and floral offerings for deceased brethren of the Press. But whence came the term? Frank T. Owen, 47 years an employe of the Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press, canvassed his friends far & wide, compiled eight more or less plausible theories. Last week Editor & Publisher reported them...
...seeing him hale and active. Two years ago when Sir Thomas conducted a six-day Delius festival, the composer was already paralyzed, nearly blind, had to attend the concerts in a wheel chair. Two months ago in honor of his 70th birthday British Broadcasting Corp. radioed Delius music far & wide...