Word: contempts
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...judge of its own subpoenas, is not subject to interference from the courts. There might be, Mr. Harris suggested, a "very unseemly and unfortunate conflict" if the Court enjoined Western Union from delivering the telegrams and the Senate demanded the telegrams under threat of jailing Western Union officials for contempt...
...tiny truck farm at Scotch Plains. Refusing a State condemnation commission's award of $800, he had served six months in jail for malicious mischief, defied an injunction ordering him to cease tampering with the wires, resisted repeated attempts to serve him with a warrant for contempt of court. But on the last of those attempts, last autumn, a party of deputy sheriffs had killed his wife Sophie. Now four of the deputies were on trial for manslaughter...
...German Nazism with its frank contempt for the intellectual life is driving the nation back into savagery...
Every Harvard student, as well as all who have lived under the shadow of Harvard and its traditions for the past 40 years, must appreciate your delightful sketch of "Kitty" [TIME, Feb. 17]. You refer in this article to his supreme contempt for all proponents of the Baconian theory. This I well know to be true...
...lecture hall at the top of a narrow flight of stairs so that a prompt exit was needed to avoid jostling and a delayed departure. The latter group, smaller and more select, being largely composed of graduate students, met in an ordinary classroom and was treated with somewhat less contempt...