...this respect a death sentence was of inestimable value. We may remember Samuel Johnson's comment — "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" — as satire, and when Johnson, one of the most prominent of the early English penal reformers, said...

...hand it right back to us and buy their education. like their pastrami. elsewhere Samuel Johnson said. "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight. it concentrates his mind wondertully." Our equivalent hanging dealing with students and their families as customers — has...

...could be sued personally. This had an effect similar to that described by Dr. Samuel Johnson, who said, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Meanwhile the judges on the bench of the Tenth Circuit in Denver, after reconsidering the Adarand case,...

...Exciting? In what sense? SHEPPARD: As Samuel Johnson said, speaking of a prisoner condemned to die, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." I imagine the same thing applies to you with regard to Hubert: since he had declared he was going to...

...not the art of getting drunk. - What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. - Depend upon it , sir — when a man knows he is to...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Q: Why, sir, in your dictionary, do you define 'pastern' as the 'knee of a horse? A: Ignorance, madam,...

...and laid-back, and pleasant to deal with. But now he was working an average of eighteen hours a day. Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Granted, Yuri Radamacher had more than a fortnight at his disposal. But how much more, remained to...

...intensity and discipline he had developed as a man under a death sentence. As Samuel Johnson once said, "Depend upon it, sir — when a man knows he is to...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Whether or not we have received bad news from the doctor, we should write as if our lives depend on...

...numbers has had a surprising impact on heirs and benefactors. As Samuel Johnson once wrote: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."20 Not that a hanging is in store, but the reality of planned responsibility (as a steward...

...public's considerable investment in science by quoting Samuel Johnson in a threatening tone: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Today there is enormous pressure on scientists to do research that is useful, to predict El Nino for...

...what we might call the Dr. Samuel Johnson Test: "Depend on it, Sir," the great man once commented, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."* Despite a significantly altered strategic landscape, dangers before December 7, 1941, were not convincingly...