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...ruby big as a hen's egg from the Crown of Edward the Black Prince: the Stuart Sapphire from the Crown of Charles II: the pearl eardrops of Queen Elizabeth: the sapphire Edward the Confessor wore in his Coronation Ring. Great officials of the Kingdom were in utmost consternation when they noticed belatedly that The Crown's topping of a Maltese cross set with a square sapphire, eight medium-sized diamonds and 192 smaller diamonds had fallen off during the procession and disappeared. It had been picked up and quietly pocketed by an officer who as quietly produced...
...problem of the athletic budget has been troublesome for several years. The Director of Athletics, Mr. Bingham, and the Athletic Committee have done their utmost each year since the depression to balance the fall income because of decreased attendance at football games by a corresponding decrease in expense...
...friend of the court" Solicitor Reed appeared on behalf of the Government to defend the Bankhead Act. He told the Court that its prerogative to declare a law unconstitutional should not be exercised except with the utmost care and for the gravest reasons. Very sour indeed were the faces of the Justices at being thus instructed in their duties. As a reason for the Court's not passing on the validity of the law, he advanced the argument that the Moor case was a "non- adversary proceeding; that is, a collusive suit between the plaintiff and the defendants...
What King George wanted everyone to know was that His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Samuel Hoare had cabled to Sir Sidney: "You should use your utmost influence to induce The Emperor to give careful and favorable consideration to these proposals and on no account lightly to reject them. On the contrary, I feel sure that he will give further proof of his statesmanship by realizing the negotiation which they afford and will avail himself of them...
...Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods, asking of course every moment for introspective data, but eliminating their uncertainty by operating on a large scale and taking statistical means. This method taxes patience to the utmost, and could hardly have arisen in a country whose natives could be bored...