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The News International (blog)
April 30, 2018
Knowledge and timber should not be much used till they are seasoned (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr). Knowledge must be backed by requisite skill (experience) to be of value, and that it must remain proportionate to better skills in future, for the use of same knowledge. Knowledge grows by its giving away, notÃâà...
Tifton Gazette
April 29, 2018
CHULA - Piedmont Academy defeated Tiftarea Academy 11-4 to wrap the Panthers' regular season in a contest that saw nearly everyone on both rosters play. More Headlines. 29 Tift track athletes to compete at sectional meet Ãâ÷ Lady Devils fourth at local invitational tournament Ãâ÷ Golf takes back-to-backÃâà...
Tifton Gazette
April 27, 2018
TIFTON — Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College wrapped up its second consecutive district tournament championship Wednesday, but might not bring up the most pleasant of memories in the future. More Headlines. Connell secures swim scholarship to South Georgia State Ãâ÷ Pebblebrook takes win in firstÃâà...
Tifton Gazette
April 27, 2018
TIFTON — After double second place team finishes for Tift County at the Region 1-AAAAAAA track and field meet last week, it's every man and woman for themselves Saturday. More Headlines. Lady Devils fourth at local invitational tournament Ãâ÷ Golf takes back-to-back titles for ABAC StallionsÃâà...
Tifton Gazette
April 27, 2018
TIFTON — After double second place team finishes for Tift County at the Region 1-AAAAAAA track and field meet last week, it's every man and woman for themselves Saturday. More Headlines. Lady Devils fourth at local invitational tournament Ãâ÷ Golf takes back-to-back titles for ABAC StallionsÃâà...
NPR
April 24, 2018
"Three generations of imbeciles are enough," wrote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in his official opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court case, known as Buck v. Bell. The 1927 case reaffirmed the right of individual states to forcibly sterilize anyone "afflicted with an hereditary form of insanity or imbecility.
The Wire
April 22, 2018
The latter, a Constitutional doctrine espoused by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. of the United States Supreme Court in 1919 in Schenck v United States, can be best understood in his own words: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre andÃâà...
Tifton Gazette
April 22, 2018
Four reasons to be excited about paying taxes this year. “Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. More Headlines. Editorial: Round of Applause Ãâ÷ The Senate has Adjourned, Sine Die Ãâ÷ Editorial: Respecting political beliefs Ãâ÷ Letter to the Editor: Does the Fourth Estate shareÃâà...
Stillwater News Press
April 21, 2018
As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. famously wrote, “…. free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” Think of our priorities as a society. Since when did we put the rights of an adult who made the conscious decision to enter the dangerousÃâà...
Law.com
April 20, 2018
It was a slow day at the office, so I took down one of the old books on my shelves, a collection of speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. At random I started to read one called “Law in Science—Science in Law,” a speech he gave in 1899, when he was 58 years old, to the New York State Bar Association,Ãâà...
Ladders
April 11, 2018
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. You need to get definitive again— like you were when you first caught fire. You'll need to get back to the beginner's mind. You'll need to want it bad enough to get extremely consistent again. No more lack of consistency. Now is the time to be more consistent than ever before.
Nevada Today
April 10, 2018
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Former Supreme Court Justice. People want and expect public services from the government that range from more national services such as national defense, health care, social security, highways and national parks to more local ones such as public education, public safetyÃâà...
INFORUM
April 5, 2018
Writing the unanimous majority opinion for that case, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. used the phrase "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" to underscore that speech which is false and dangerous—i.e., which threatens public safety—is not protected by the First Amendment. So, one question to beÃâà...
INFORUM
April 5, 2018
Writing the unanimous majority opinion for that case, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. used the phrase "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" to underscore that speech which is false and dangerous—i.e., which threatens public safety—is not protected by the First Amendment. So, one question to beÃâà...
The Spinoff
April 4, 2018
By the time Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr said “taxes are the price we pay for a free society” (in 1904), government spending in New Zealand was about one tenth of the economy. When the First Labour Government introduced the welfare state in 1935, government spending equated to a fifth of the economy.
The American Conservative
April 3, 2018
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. might have been one of the first to recognize this truth. Photography was just being introduced to newspapers and magazines when Holmes, a student at Harvard, wrote in the Atlantic Monthly prior to the Civil War that the advent of the photograph would separate form from reality.
Daily Free Press (blog)
March 29, 2018
Rosen said she hoped attendees left the event with a deeper understanding of the First Amendment and why the Supreme Court has stressed the importance of “freedom for the thought that we hate,” a sentence coined by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and why some Americans want to change thatÃâà...
The Bulletin
March 28, 2018
Following the end of the case, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote his majority opinion to explain his decision to send Mr. Schenck to jail. In this opinion he stated that freedom of speech should not extend to those that are complicit by inciting panic. Holmes offered an example of when it would beÃâà...
Quality Digest
March 27, 2018
In its place, we need richer frameworks to define the kind of work coaches are capable off, as well as ways of assessing the quality of their coaching interventions. The American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once said: “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Wicked Local
March 12, 2018
Individuals to be highlighted include nurse Louisa May Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Margaret Fuller's brother, Arthur -- all from Massachusetts. Matteson will discuss the war as an episode that also tested the bonds between parents and children and how a number of participants in the conflict cameÃâà...
Herald and News
March 8, 2018
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935), Supreme Court justice/author; Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), author; Alan Hale Jr. (1921-1990), actor; Cyd Charisse (1922-2008), actress/dancer; Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010), actress; Micky Dolenz (1945-), singer/musician; Lester Holt (1959-), journalist; AidanÃâà...
Timeline
March 8, 2018
Three generations of imbeciles are enough,” wrote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. for the majority. Dr. Zimmerman's “medical reason” for advocating sterilization of “mental deficients” echoed Justice Holmes's reasoning. In court, Lucille's attorney asked, “Is it true that mental deficients will always produceÃâà...
Universe.byu.edu
March 8, 2018
I'm been invited to go skiing with a friend of mine over break. That's pretty cool, but there's a problem: I have no idea how to ski. I've never been skiing in my life. My friend insists that this is no big deal, and that he'll show me the ropes. But I'm a little nervous about the whole thing, and I would hate for him toÃâà...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
March 7, 2018
On this day in 1935, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle front page featured coverage of the funeral of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who died two days before his 94th birthday. A Civil War veteran, Holmes was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President TheodoreÃâà...
The New York Review of Books
February 28, 2018
The Supreme Court did not interfere much with the persecution of dissenters, but the justices, led by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., began to see the dangers of restricting speech and to articulate stronger First Amendment principles. In a 1925 case involving an anarchist named Benjamin Gitlow, the SupremeÃâà...
Tifton Gazette
December 31, 1999
Four reasons to be excited about paying taxes this year. “Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. More Headlines. Editorial: Round of Applause Ãâ÷ The Senate has Adjourned, Sine Die Ãâ÷ Editorial: Respecting political beliefs Ãâ÷ Letter to the Editor: Does the Fourth Estate shareÃâà...
Shoreline Times
December 31, 1999
The father of renowned acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the senior Oliver was a great polymath of his generation. A poet, teacher, medical reformer, scientist and literary success, he invented the Holmes-type stereoscope - also known as the Stereopticon - in 1860.
Tifton Gazette
December 31, 1999
TIFTON — Tift County's tennis teams will be back in action Monday, on the road for the first round of the state tournament. The teams will be traveling to the same school, Wheeler High in Marietta, for their matches. More Headlines. Lady Devils clinch region title, Tift sweeps soccer Ãâ÷ ESMS golf teams takeÃâà...
Tifton Gazette
December 31, 1999
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Are you ready for tax day? Did you know that you have until Tuesday, April 17 to file your taxes this year? Citizens of most countries hate paying taxes. There is something about giving money to an entity that you have little control over that takes the joy out of writing those checks.
VVN Music
December 31, 1999
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and presentÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
December 31, 1999
In fact, I am inspired by that quote that is inscribed over the front door of the US tax office, the Internal Revenue Service in Washington DC. It's the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr who served as a US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932: "Taxes are what we pay for a civilised society.” Advertisement.
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