Word: weapons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...have since: that there are no legal absolutes, there are only judges' prejudices. Seekers for certainty in the law, wrote he, are victims of the psychological hunger for a father-substitute.* To Scholar Frank, the most intriguing legal philosopher was Jehring, who saw the law as a pliant weapon, a means to an end. But the greatest was Justice Holmes, who saw the law as "an experiment" like life itself...
...powerful shipping interests may try to circumvent the law, and a doubtfully neutral Administration can help them do it. Our other new neutrality tool is the Johnson Act, which forbids loans to nations that have defaulted in former war loans, meaning England and France. This is a potent weapon, but again must be guarded jealously against forces both abroad and must be guarded jealously against forces both abroad and at home that would like to blunt it. Britain especially, who needs capital to carry on her enormously expensive blockade, may well be appalled at the sight of a creditor nation...
...make money, and, unfortunately, there is little to choose between soaps. Hence competition is nerve-racking, with Procter & Gamble hanging on to some 40% of the U. S. business, C-P-P and Lever Bros. doing about 20% apiece - 200-odd soapmakers scrapping for the rest. Chief competitive weapon: advertising, for which the soapmakers' bill was a cool $40,000,000 last year. It cost C-P-P alone a good $8,000,000 to remind its Palmolive Soap buyers to "Keep That Schoolgirl Complexion," buy its 432 additional toilet items. Of that sum over two-thirds went into...
...rounded up and "put through the third degree by the Rumanian police and mistreated in such a cruel way that some of them were left unconscious." Many others were arrested and mistreated for nothing more than possessing arms. Everyone in Central Europe, protested Hungarian papers, has some sort of weapon these days...
Even tougher for Hrdlicka are those mysterious creatures called the Folsom men, whose skeletons have never been found, but whose tools have turned up in abundance. "Folsom points" are weapons shaped like spearheads, with shallow grooves flaked out on each side. First Folsom find was made near Folsom, N. M., in 1926. The weapons were intermingled with the bones of long-extinct bison. Skeptical anthropologists first wrote off this association as accidental. Then Jesse Dade Figgins of Colorado, one of the Folsom pioneers, found two points actually between the ribs of a fossil bison. He left the exhibit undisturbed...