Word: confessionally
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For the old question of why the overage young American goes to college, there is nowadays a common explanation: he goes, or is sent, to increase his earning capacity. Perhaps that confession seems quite proper; yet in it lies the key to a large part of Harvard's difficulties. A...
Liquidation will mean a saving of $50,000,000 yearly cost of operation of the government-owned merchant marine. The humiliation lies in the "surrender of our aspirations and the confession of our impotence . . . before the competing world." The ships cost $3,000,000,000; they will bring $26,000...
Secretary Weeks has promised a thorough inquiry. No evidence of murder has ever been produced. A confession made by a bugler implicating Captain Rosenbluth has been retracted.
Two hours later the jury returned a verdict of "not guilty" and the prisoner found that his chance shot had gone home, that his "faked" confession had freed him from fifteen years of prison in Pennsylvania without resulting in his conviction for a crime he had never committed.
Sensational as it is and melodramatic in the extreme, Jesse Murphy's speech ranks with Webster's at the trial in Salem. And the great climax of the nineteenth-century attorney is twisted in the case of the twentieth-century prisoner until the latter finds a refuge not from but...