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Page 35 - Hicklin. [L]ater decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
Page 27 - In the performance of, and with respect to, the functions, powers, and duties...
Page 67 - Law 763 provides that the compensation of such employees shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates. A general survey of Government and industrial employees...
Page 35 - ' . . .A thing is obscene if, considered as a whole, its predominant appeal is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters . . .." See Comment, id., at 10, and the discussion at page 29 et seq.
Page 23 - Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin : but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Page 14 - Administration may be placed in grades 16, 17, and. 18 of the General Schedule established by that Act, and any such positions shall be additional to the number authorized by such section.
Page 87 - Territory, after consulting the head of the department or office in which such persons serve, to be members of boards of examiners...
Page 23 - For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh : and these are contrary the one to the other ; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Page 30 - Obscene' means that to the average person, applying contemporary standards, the predominant appeal of the matter, taken as a whole, is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters and is matter which is utterly without redeeming social importance...
Page 22 - GS-18 of the general schedule established by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.

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