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Word: executioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The bulk of the Student Council meeting last night was consumed in discussion of the new House plan for the sub-division of the College. President Lowell reviewed the history and purpose of the plan and pointed to various difficulties which would have to be never come in its execution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G. L. LEWIS PICKED TO ASSIGN JUNIORS NEXT YEAR'S ROOMS | 11/20/1928 | See Source »

The athletic authorities at Brown University have come forward with a plan whose execution in the next few weeks will put into the field of intramural competition lightweight football teams similar in their function to the lightweight crews that take to the water in the spring. The plan sets 155...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS | 11/17/1928 | See Source »

Finally came the grand, the fascinating, fiasco of Versailles, brilliant as so often before with the greatest figures of the day. Most brilliant was Wilson, the man of vision; House his man of execution-for in most things the two worked as one, supplementing each other. True, House did not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historical Data | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Maurice murders Lambertier; Valerie admits the adultery which she has lied about before and committed for reasons which are the weakest element in the play. Maurice then gives himself up to the police to save an innocent man from execution. Valerie, by explaining the true circumstances, will save her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Capital punishment was established in Italy by Benito Mussolini, for a trial period of five years last year. Last week the new law operated for the first time, when a firing squad of Fascist Legionnaires shot down one Michele della Maggiore, a Communist convicted of murdering two Fascisti. This was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Record | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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