Word: unorthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every conceivable legal angle of the case, ranging from the circumstances of the first arrests to the desperate and unsuccessful attempts to have the case brought before a Federal court as a last resort. He describes the trials, the controversial character of Judge Webster Thayer, the jury and the unorthodox way in which it was chosen, the witnesses and their testimony, and the involved question of the evidence. Although the purpose of this book is to present an objective view of the case, the authors could obviously not refrain from unconsciously injecting their own judgments. Professor Morgan writes: "Against...
...proceed to abolish geometry (invented by a pagan), algebra (influenced by Mohammedans) . . . music (its appeal is sensual), art (unattractive to red-blooded hemen) and . . . that when spring comes-if it ever does to Olivet, Mich.-he keep his students all indoors lest it freshen their blood and create unorthodox notions...
...Unorthodox Approach. The second night Warren appeared in Salt Lake City for the first formal speech of his campaign. It was here that he might have been expected to throw off his folksy, nonpartisan role for a slashing attack on the Democratic administration. Instead, Candidate Warren unmistakably showed his intention of campaigning in his own unorthodox way, in the same reasoned, almost nonpartisan approach which he had used in his successful California campaigns for attorney general and governor. The 1,700 Republican workers, who only half filled the South High School auditorium, listened in bewildered silence...
...concerned with contemporary history. Allen frequently consults his good friend, the Atlantic's Editor Ted Weeks. Each regards his magazine as one of culture's last bastions against engulfing tides of vulgarity and mass thinking. Harper's, Allen says, is a forum for the "unorganized, unrecognized, unorthodox and unterrified," though it is rarely as bold as all that...
...novelty to U.S. businessmen, but an unorthodox departure for hidebound government agencies, Kohler's new role will make him a sort of super house detective, with broad authority to pry into all ECA activities both at home & abroad. Besides the routine task of keeping expenditures in line with appropriations, his investigators will follow through on ECA shipments, make sure they are not diverted to Europe's black markets or resold to Russian satellites. Reports on his continuous "internal audit" will go directly to Administrator Hoffman...