Word: akin
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Constitution is challenged. . . . Even if this opinion meets with a cold reception in the Appellate courts, we hope it will at least have the effect of focussing the country's thought upon the neglected method of considering constitutional amendments in conventions. We have often wished for some statute akin to mortmain to remove the dead hand of tradition from the domain of ideas. . . ." Putting aside "the stereotyped method of constitutional interpretation and construction" and the judicial principle of citing superior decisions (stare decisis] Judge Clark declared: "We are quite willing to stand flatfootedly on our thesis that the scientific...
Probably some wave force, akin to light, electric or heat waves, is the ultimate essential. Probably that unknown force cooks or orients the primordial elements into the mutual relations they must have to be "alive." Such is the path of theory on which Dr. Crile, who believes that Life is an electrical phenomenon (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926), has been toiling...
...assertion, propoganda for one cause or another, and, in fact any indication of a bee in the bonnet of an author, are often considered vital in the opinion of modern literary critics. Likewise, enthusiasm and unrestraint are considered the ear marks of powerful literature. Therefore it is with something akin to surprise that one realizes, on finishing this sober volume, its genuine literary excellence...
...with a feeling akin to sadness that the same readers now grown to manhood, greet the announcement that the Women's Christian Temperance Union has taken these self-same rimes and jingles and converted them into Prohibition propaganda. But the old order changeth and Progress is an exemplary ambition. Perhaps Mother Goose willingly aids and abets the Noble Experiment. Forsaking her eternal kingdom she will be seen in the night air stealthily aeroplaning--of course her broomstick is antiquated--hither and yon disseminating the evils of drink. Yes, the Eighteenth Amendment is an honorable thing and even Mother Goose should...
Conditions closely akin to slavery are existent; but do not present a serious problem. Captives of war are kept in slavery until they are redeemed by ransom, but they are given good treatment and are not imprisoned. Women are considered by some tribes as chattels and like furniture or jewelry may be put in pawn...