Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time had certainly come when some change should be made in the method of choosing umpires for the annual football contests. It is time that men should be chosen who have no personal interest in the success of either contesting team or of any third team in the Assassin, or else men of sufficient age and experience to be able to divorce what small interest they might have from their action. To come directly to the point, it is time the colleges began to have professional umpires. To this proposal the objection has been raised that there are no competent...
...which college lost the most blood in the glorious foot-ball campaign of last season, the seniors of Williams feel called upon to declare themselves in favor of a more extensive study of Physiology. But is not this tinged with a little of the spirit of the assassin? Is there not a concealed purpose to be able to find out an opponent's physiological weakness? As an offset let us adopt chain-armor. This is a suggestion to the conference committee...
...Brady, the Phenix-Park assassin, was hanged in the Dublin jail yesterday morning...
Brady, the Phenix Park assassin, has been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged...
MacLean, the attempted assassin of Victoria, has been committed for high treason...