Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...minutes after the question was originally put all doors are locked, except those leading into the West ("ayes") Lobby and the East ("noes") Lobby. The Speaker then directs the members to "divide." Up they get, out they walk into the lobbies of their choice. As they do so Division Clerks record their names and these are counted by four Tellers whom the Speaker has previously appointed and who report to him. Members who are present but wish to abstain, merely remain in their seats. Finally the members re-enter the House and the Speaker tells them what the tellers have...
Hours later Mace-snatcher Beckett rose to put (ask) a question, as he had every right to do, but subsided blushing when the House with one voice roared: "Sit down...
Brundidge: I've heard that story for 20 years and the next man who asks me that question will get a punch in the nose...
Although the maxim (credited to Accursius, 1182-1260) was coined in a day when man was earthbound, it has survived to provide endless argument on the question of what constitutes trespass by aircraft. Today virtually all jurists agree that a property owner has control of the space above only to the extent that he can actually make use of it, or for protecting the rights which he enjoys on the surface.* Thereby hangs a variety of interpretations which threaten to become more confusing with the increase of airports and aircraft...
...same doctrine was applied in the similar Massachusetts case of Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. But there, injunction was denied, largely because the portion of the plaintiff's land in question was covered with dense brush and woods, and the occupants failed to prove material discomfort to themselves because of low flying...