Word: commit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he got a mandatory sentence of 30 to 60 years under the Baumes Law. He led a gang of young bandits in a Manhattan holdup, shot two people, almost killed one. Had the man died, John Mahoney would have gone to the electric chair. If Richard Whitney should commit another felony, using a gun, he would get what John Mahoney...
...know that your prolonged and absurd resistance is only a means to prepare your escape. It seems unnecessary to say it, since everyone knows it, that you are beaten! Each day you prolong your resistance, each additional life you waste, every fresh home you sacrifice, each new crime you commit is a new count in the indictment you will be brought to face before our justice. For we have...
...indiscretion is the one thing a member of the British Foreign Office must never commit, and last week London rang with the discovery that on March 3 an indiscretion was committed by Civil Servant Thomas Henry Glasse...
...that Orator Burckel was nearly scorched upon his rostrum and perspiration poured down his beet-red face, he shouted that Nazis will never again be locked up at Wöllersdorf. In Vienna there were rumors in responsible quarters that former Vice Chancellor Major Emil Fey did not recently commit suicide, but was called upon by Storm Troops who threatened to take his life unless he signed a confession that it was he who killed the late Chancellor Dollfuss, not the Nazi Planetta who is presently to be canonized as a "Nazi Martyr.'' The confessed Assassin Fey, according...
...determining a future life's work; Harvard is not an Antioch or a Technology. In fact, most men will find that it is a good idea to forget any premonition of future careers and select the field in which they are really interested. Although it does not commit them to lifelong imprisonment, changes later on cannot be made without the loss of much valuable time, and care now will pay large dividends later on. Above all, the worst thing they can do is to drift into any field at all, expecting to have an education shoved down their throats...