Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Professor Pound's casual office in the stacks of Langdell Library, word came this term that the 76-year old legal philosopher, dean of the Law School for 20 years, would retire July 1. "It is best to retire before people begin wondering why you don't," he mused, peering over the wall of books that lines his desk on three sides...
...white paper. The judge read them, flushed, gave them to the clerk. The verdict for all defendants: "Not guilty." The judge ordered the prisoners released. He faced the jury and said: "Mr. Foreman and gentlemen, that concludes your service. . . . The clerk has your checks ready." Then, with no word of thanks, he rose and stalked...
...energetic Pan Chaoying, director of the influential Catholic Social Welfare newspaper chain in China, let out an anti-Russian blast. Thundered Pan: "According to the Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1945, China and Russia should respect each other's sovereignty and territory. But Russia hasn't kept her word...
...Gang "separated" in 1934. In parting, Billy rashly gave a piece of his mind to some of the boys. To keep Billy from (as Billy said) "being built into the East River Drive," Friend Bernard Baruch called in the FBI. Billy named names, and the G-men had a word with all of them. Billy had found another equalizer...
When doctors first announced (in 1943) that penicillin would remove all signs of early syphilis in eight days, many a layman concluded that penicillin was a sure syphilis cure. But syphilologists, knowing the wily ways of the spirochete, were careful to use the word "cure" only in cautious quotation marks...