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Word: crimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MURDER-D. B. Olsen-Crime Club ($2). Lieutenant Mayhew needs help from 70-year-old Rachel Murdock in solving the killings of her niece and another guest. A good creepy story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...paroled, Robert entered a teachers' college at Tempe, Ariz. His classmates found him hard to understand, envied his ability to wangle high marks with hardly any study. His teacher of public speaking was puzzled when Robert handed in an outline for a speech entitled "Murder," describing a "perfect crime." Recently Robert's acquaintances noticed that he was acting even more queerly than usual. He moved out of his dormitory, took a room in a hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Model | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Last week Hatton Sumners spoke to the District Attorneys on Democracy. To the Parole Conference he spoke tartly on crime* and passed on to speak even more tartly on Government spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Back Talk | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Excerpt: "I know this parole problem is difficult. It is as difficult as God Almighty's gymnastic paraphernalia provided for the development of human beings. . . . People who believe in crime by force should get their necks broken, or we should put them on the gridiron and burn them up. You bet your life! That puts the fear of God in their hearts. Then if you've got something left over worth salvaging, give them parole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Back Talk | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...threat of excommunication. In a statement read in all Catholic churches in Britain, the hierarchy declared: "Among the causes of the present unrest are workings of certain secret societies. The church sternly condemns all societies which plot against the church or state. They are guilty of crime against human society. Members of such secret societies incur excommunication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church v. I. R. A. | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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