Word: blows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleven will have the advantage of a dry field and a clear sky this afternoon, if the weather report as given out by the Blue Hill Observatory late last night is correct. The temperature is predicted to drop to about 50 degrees, and a strong north-west wind should blow across the Stadium, thus making the kicking conditions equal from either end of the field...
Countered Judge Talley, upholder of the death penalty, the Chicago trial coming to his mind: "You can't blow hot and cold on this. You can't on one day plead for a man because he is poor, and on the next ask mercy because he is rich and over-educated." He stated that were the death penalty abolished, there would be no possible deterrent to killing, since no criminal feared the pleasant conditions of a jail. In prison, Judge Talley said, ruffians are bedded with a comfort, fed with a largess, that they could never themselves have...
Senator Sheppard nudged his friend. They continued their walk. Said Senator Sheppard: "It would be a fatal blow either to my colleague, Mayfield, or myself to reduce to the extent of 120 pounds. . . . The spectacle of a 40-pound member of the Senate would be a source of endless jest and the Senate has enough of ridicule...
...smashing judicial blow has been dealt by the U. S. Supreme Court at the so-called "third degree." The substance of Mr. Justice Brandeis' opinion -given when a new trial was ordered in the appeal from a death sentence of a youthful Chinese, Liang Sung Wau, who confessed to having killed, on Jan. 21, 1919, one Dr. Ben Sen Wu and two other members of the Chinese Educational Mission-is that no court should admit as competent evidence a confession obtained by "third degree" methods. In the case at bar, the defendant admitted his guilt after eleven almost sleepless...
...smashing judicial blow...