Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is now needed is to infuse into international law the finest traditions of all the great legal systems of the world...
...they pressed in on the President's Cadillac, a great cloud of dust arose, and the light of bonfires and of lanterns held high by hollow-eyed Hindu functionaries gave the scene an exotic glow. Tongues of humanity darted back and forth across the road in front of the moving wheels, as helpless police tried to clear the path. The procession cut through them slowly, like the prow of a ship, and the crowd rolled back again like the stubborn seas...
...great purposes of this Administration," wrote the President just before taking off on his global tour, "is to advance the rule of law in the world." Last week at India's Delhi University, he spoke to the "great purpose." Excerpts...
...course the structure of such law must be patiently built, stone by stone. The cost will be a great deal of hard work, both in and out of government, particularly in the universities of the world...
...status quo is armed and entrenched. On the contrary, a single role of law, the sanctity of contract, has been the vehicle for more explosive and extensive economic change in the world than any other factor. The principle that men must keep bargains is a fundamental of every great legal system the world has ever known...