Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court having refused to review his case fortnight ago, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was resentenced last week (Dec. 13) to die in the electric chair sometime during the week...
...criticize him as follows: "I'd advise him rather to take up arboriculture, unless he is so extraordinarily devoted to writing at its most difficult that even newspaper reporting doesn't attract him. Poetry is worse than cyanide of potassium to a young man unless he wants to die that...
...furthering the international exchange of knowledge. His lectures will give an English audience an American conception of America--an interpretation needed fully as much as similar English or other foreign interpretations of their own countries. This thought would undoubtedly have some difficulty penetrating the egotistical and impervious craniums of die-hard Americanists, but it remains substantial...
...DIE-Andre Gide-Random House...
...traditionally fourth king of the Bini. Since his people were rich and peaceable and his slaves had little to do, he sent 20,000 of them into the forest to dig a ditch about 40 feet wide, 20 feet deep. "Not for war," explained King Oguola. "But when I die and people say 'Who was Oguola?' they will hear 'he was the King that dug the Big Ditch...