Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Berlin, not even in Prussia, but in Saxony, in Leipzig sits the German Supreme Court: das Reichsgericht. Justice is done beneath a mighty dome topped by a big bronze statue of Truth. Through tall casement windows Saxon sunbeams glint upon carved oak. In such a setting presiding Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week...
...next? Herren Hindenburg and Briining know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...
...young man. When I read the details of his act of last October I was convinced that his intention was not to kill but to attract public attention to the deplorable state of affairs in Italy. . . . Everywhere men of different beliefs and shades of opinion are allowed to assemble except in Italy. Deprived of liberty and hearing lots of talk about violence, what shall youth...
...just as well right-handed as the Cubs. Douthit, Hafey, Wilson, Gelbert, Adams are all right-side batters; Frisch can bat on either side. This year (up to last week) the Cardinal outfield averaged .353 at bat, the Athletics outfield .311. Every man in the regular Cardinal line-up except Bottomley has hit over .300. The six best Athletics average only...
...periods are devoted to those subjects in which the student primarily works with his mind. As far as possible the first period of the afternoon is taken up with laboratory or field work and the last period with athletics, outdoor work, and recreation. The student's evenings are free, except when a lecture, a play, a debate, or some similar activity takes place...