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...Caloca hurled thoroughgoing curses and charged that Señor Calles when President had connived with Luis Morones in stupendous graft. Meanwhile in the Chamber of Deputies Melchor Ortega and Aurelio Manrique had pulled guns on each other, but were overpowered by friends and disarmed before they could commit murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Crom Crisis | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Just as a surgeon does not commit himsa (killing), but practices the purest ahimsa (non-killing) when he wields his knife on his patient's body for the latter's benefit, similarly one may find it necessary ... to go a step further and sever life from the body in the interest of the sufferer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: When To Kill | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Senator Moses viewed the Raskob document and said: "I have no recollection of ever having seen any manuscript of that character. I might add, however, that I believe any person who would resort to rifling the mails would not hesitate to commit a forgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Red Hot Stuff | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...been 'Yon-Yonsoned' into a state of mind in which they are ready to vote for Al Smith as a person on whom the original-stock American looks down." Senator Shipstead, pet of the "Yon-Yonson" voters, appeared with the Nominee in St. Paul but did not commit himself. The report that he was "hurt" followed the Nominee's neglect to mention what the Senator had done to get a Federal barge service on Minnesota's end of the Mississippi River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cause and Effect | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...last week rolling and pushing on their own gridirons, not venturing to play rivals. Some of the smaller colleges made use of a warm September afternoon for playing their first games with much cursing and lazy snorting but without the readiness, which will be produced by November temperatures, to commit murder or die for victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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