Word: interprets
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...theologian. The rebuke which Galileo received at the hands of Bellarmine's Holy Office in 1616 (year of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes) was mild. In sum, he was ordered not to "hold or defend" the proposition that the earth revolved around the sun. Galileo did not interpret this as a gag order, and over the next eight years cautiously busied himself, in letters and pamphlets, with thinly disguised proselytizing for the Copernican view...
...study, digest and interpret is the job of a weekly newsmagazine, one of the services that TIME must give its readers. This week TIME'S editors pre sent a special six-page section on the new Yalta material, including three other related stories...
...people of rights guaranteed them by the Constitution?" When the nominee replied that it would be "indiscreet and inappropriate" for him to reply, Eastland followed with a comparable question concerning school segregation. The implications of such interrogation are alarming. The decisions of justice, whose task it is to interpret the Constitution without prejudice, are fundamentally different from those of a legislator, whose first responsibility is to his constituents. When Senators try, then, to assure that a Federal judge's opinions will mirror their own, they are attempting to blur the traditional line between legislative and judicial functions of the Government...
Funds given to the Winant Volunteers are used in large part to defray the travel expenses of men and women chosen for the work who are unable to pay their own way. Clearly a mission designed to interpret the United States to London's East-Enders should not be composed exclusively of young people from families in the upper income brackets. As it is, hate--America propagandists portray our country to this group as a nation of millionaires, and a sprinkling of scholarship Winants is needed to refute this claim...
Norman Hall, managing editor of the Alumni Bulletin, would comment only briefly on the secretary's accusation. "I am smiling an enigmatic little smile," he said. "Interpret that as you will." William B. Smith, former Bulletin staff man and advisor to President Pusey, admitted that the whole magazine was still smarting from the CRIMSON's November Illegitimate Issue. "I will say that a lot of us think the CRIMSON should finally get their just desserts." William A. Heaman, Director of University Dining Halls, said Smith should mind his own business...