Word: assassinate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will," declared Dean C. R. Brown, D. D., of Yale, in a talk to 200 Freshmen in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "Here is a knife of keenest tempered steel. In the hands of the surgeon it is a means of saving life; in the hands of the assassin it becomes a fatal weapon. The tool itself is useless, it is the guiding intelligence behind it that counts. So it is with our lives...
...most momentous crises she has faced since the restoration of the Imperial House. The deaths within the month of two of her ablest statesmen of the old school,--Prince Yamagata and Marquis Okuma; the nationwide tenseness over the trial of the late Premier Hara's assassin in Tokio, have thrown into sharp relief the vast struggle going on beneath the surface in Japan...