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Abe Fortas Abe Fortas
Abe Fortas , 1910-82, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1965-69), b. Memphis, Tenn. After receiving his law degree from Yale in 1933, he taught there (1933-37) and also held a variety of government posts. He was (1942-46) undersecretary of the interior before entering private law... Read more
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in re Gault in re Gault
in re Gault , case decided in 1967 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault had been found a delinquent by an Arizona juvenile court and sentenced to the state industrial school for up to six years for having made allegedly obscene telephone calls to a female neighbor. Under the... Read more
arcade arcade
arcade series of arches supported by columns or piers. An arcade may stand free; if it is attached to a wall it is called a wall arcade or a blind arcade. The earliest-known arcades were in Roman architecture, in which piers, ornamented with engaged columns carrying an entablature, formed the arch... Read more
hypostyle hypostyle
hypostyle , the chamber in Egyptian temples in which a number of columns supported a flat stone roof. Forming the chief and largest inner space of the temple, it was entered from the outer courtyard and, in turn, gave access to the holy of holies and the small inner sanctuaries occupying the rear of... Read more
Chief Justice Chief Justice
CHIEF JUSTICE The presiding, most senior, or principal judge of a court. Although the office of the chief justice of the supreme court of the united states is a prestigious position, the functions and powers of the chief justice are not well-defined. The U.S. Constitution contains only one mention... Read more
Tula Tula
Tula , ancient city in the present state of Hidalgo, central Mexico. It was one of the chief urban centers of the Toltec . The city is believed to be Tollán, the legendary Toltec capital mentioned in a number of postconquest sources, including Bernardino de Sahagún's Historia General... Read more
vertebral column vertebral column
vertebral column (backbone; spinal column; spine) A flexible bony column in vertebrates that extends down the long axis of the body and provides the main skeletal support. It also encloses and protects the spinal cord and provides attachment for the muscles of the back. The vertebral column consists... Read more
cloister cloister
cloister unroofed space forming part of a religious establishment and surrounded by the various buildings or by enclosing walls. Generally, it is provided on all sides with a vaulted passageway consisting of continuous colonnades or arcades opening onto a court. The cloister is a characteristic... Read more
entasis entasis
entasis [Gr.,=stretching], the slight convex curvature of a classical column that diminishes in diameter as it rises. This device, as used by Greek builders, was of extreme subtlety, the freehand curvature being merely sufficient to guard the contours of the column from any appearance of inward... Read more

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