Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...analogy, describing a football game in the language of integral equations. But whatever the wordology, there are some who are violently opposed to any idea of life after death; if these people thought there really was such a life, they would probably seek a pill with which they could commit eternal suicide. "If charnel houses and our graves do send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites...
...minority-the trouble makers-there is but one way to handle them, and that method is now to be put in operation. The announcement that the names of men who commit serious breaches of trust will be publicly posted means the beginning of the end of the Library's difficulties. It is a sad fact that such a procedure should be necessary; but considering the acts that occur over again in Widener, it is an extremely mild method of enforcing the rule. Mr. Lane is quite correct in assuming that student opinion will gladly back this new effort to eradicate...
...Missouri House of Representatives elected him to be a doorkeeper as its share of official tribute to the heroism of life on the highway. Both were made the central figures of dime novels, eagerly devoured by hundreds of thousands of boyish minds which thereupon became fired to commit murder and robbery and be handed down to posterity as the rivals of the "James boys...
With the publication in yesterday's transcript of the substance of President Harding's sixteen points, we come at last to some of the definite issues which are to be discussed at Washington. The United States is still talking the lead; it is the first nation definitely to commit itself. This is a fact which should be borne in mind by those who are inclined to criticize President Harding's policy. It is expressly stated that the program is offered principally as a starting point for discussion...
...such thing as a good prison no matter how much you reform it", said Mr. Baldwin. "The whole idea that you can benefit men and women by inflicting punishment upon them is wrong. We all have within us potential criminality; and the most law abiding members of society would commit crimes if they were placed under the same conditions as the majority of the so-called criminals of this country. Most of the 4,00,000 persons imprisoned in the United States are young men, arrested for petty crimes, the result of hunger or poverty...