Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The report of the Harvard Board of Overseers on the reading periods before comprehensive examinations states that "it is expected... that for the first few years there will be an increased number of failures among the students who are disposed to neglect their studies". This illustrates the difference between the...
Senator Reed is a destructive, not a constructive force in lawmaking, but he is consistent. He believes that the reform wave of the last two decades, which would create laws and Federal bureaus to cure every popular ill, is mischievous. If this is continued to its ultimate complexity, every time...
The second striking contrast between this and the average exhibition of its kind is the differences of style which are displayed by the individual pictures. There is a picture to suit every taste. From the careful almost miniature-like technique of the "Sorco River, North Conway," with its quiet backwater...
"There a rebel band of youths of good family was seized by the authorities, who found the lads unarmed but hustled them off to execution in the public square. Before the preliminaries to the execution were arranged, one young boy started to cry. His companion, Valencia Gallardo, a boy less...
In the part of the soldier De Laubry, saved from execution by the intervention of du Barry, M. Rolla Norman is often more convincing than Sorel, but it is she who seems to lend fire to his lovemaking, aiding him to reach heights of ardor which she herself does not...