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Nine Old Men, the
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(Noun) (Epithet) The arch-conservative US Supreme Court just before the "Roosevelt Revolution" swept it away by death, retirement and, in one famous instance, ("A switch in time saves nine"), recognition that trying to preserve older principles was the triumph of form at the expense of substance.
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