Word: beheading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confessed that the convictions of these small fry merely scratched the surface of espionage. Judge Knox thought the trial was a constructive lesson for inquisitive Nazis, sternly reminded the defendants: "In this country, we spread no sawdust on ... our prison yards." He meant that the U. S. did not behead its spies. (In war time, it could shoot or hang them.) Next day in Berlin, a Nazi headsman decapitated two spies for "unnamed foreign powers...
...these examinations ought to be given in the third year, and the Senior exams should be single (choice of several) essay questions on broad subjects of one's field. At any rate, they should not all be dropped like a guillotine at the end of the last year, to behead the student who has not developed a neck stiff enough to withstand such assaults. What the Senior examinations should alone determine is a man's fitness for honors. They should not deprive the man who fails of his degree. Such examinations should be given in the Junior year, with...