Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Names are dropped much more readily than they are added. Writers who turn out one important book and then fade out quickly join the "noncurrent" (i.e., dropped)' list. Death or conviction for a crime are automatic reasons for dropping a name, although after death the name may turn up in Who Was Who. Alger Hiss went out after he was convicted of perjury. German-American Bundsman Fritz Kuhn as well as Communist Boss William Z. Foster were knocked out for being too "notorious." No sports figures were included until 1943, when the rule was changed. Among the sports figures...
...them, bursting with pep and dog and devil . . . Milly throws on my desk two battered and scrawled anonymous sheets. 'Where's your name, Milly? You should write your name on your [home] work before giving it in.' She borrows a pencil from Alice, her companion in crime. Alice has a clip machine; she clips the pages together ... so that I cannot open them. I get possession of this mangled piece of work, have an argument with Milly about not sitting beside Alice, and we start the lesson...
...defunct John Reed Society to sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder in New Lecture Hall." The decision in that case, confirmed by the Corporation, had nothing to do with Browder's opinions. It was based solely on the fact that he had just been indicted for a crime and that his trial was pending. The question was, in fact, one of propriety or "taste" in giving a man whose trial was pending a chance to use Harvard as a sounding board to plead his cause. Under other circumstances I would have defended the right of a student organization to invite...
...phrase 'third degree' as employed in this report is used to mean the employment of methods which inflict suffering, physical or mental, upon a person in order to obtain from that person information about a crime...
...third degree" find it advisable to do their illegal work in secret, the Congressional inquisitors flaunt their tortures before the public eye and ear as they try, in the words of the Report, "to win applause by producing a victim when popular clamor demands the solution of a crime...