Word: breach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Private Walter Trumbull, No. 6,112,765, Service Co., 21st Inf., was sentenced to dishonorable discharge and 26 years at hard labor by a court martial in Honolulu, for breach of Article 62, and also participation in a communist plot which was said to have collided with the general "good order"* clauses of Article...
...above the rest: a 305-millimetre* gun had blown up: 7 were killed, 30 wounded. The ship immediately caught fire. The magazines were flooded as a precautionary measure but the fire was extinguished before irreparable damage was caused. The accident was due to a backfire into an imperfectly closed breach...
...question of what degree of free dom shall be permitted to students is a very delicate one. The transition from school to college is at present so violent and in cases so disastrous, that it is doubtful wisdom to widen the breach Freshmen should be subject to the examination system as they now are, in order that their fitness to do college work may be tested and in order that a new found freedom may not develop into licensed idleness. Sophomores, also, should be subject to the examination with the exception of those who as Freshmen reached Groups...
...damages against her divorced husband, since married to Almina, Dowager Countess of Carnarvon. The question of costs was still under consideration. Immediately after the case, a firm of solicitors in London announced that a "young, unmarried and beautiful" client intended to bring a suit against Colonel Dennistoun for breach of promise. The lady was said to be an American, alleged to be Lois Meredith, cinema star, who, interrogated in Manhattan, did not deny that she was the "young, unmarried and beautiful" woman referred to, but declined to make any positive statement...
...apes, we are told by the German doctor, the form of intellect is the same as the form which we find in man, but not developed to anywhere near the high point of man. "Moreover," said Dr. Koehler, "there is a great breach between the intellectual development of the apes and of the smaller monkeys and other animals, such as dogs and cats. The reason that dogs often seem so intelligent is that they are more docile and willing to be taught than other animals...