Word: inflicting
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...clubs or combinations of the students take place, either for resisting the authorities of the college, or for executing any evil or disorderly design every student concerned in such combination shall be considered guilty of the offence which was intended, and the faculty are empowered to inflict a severer punishment on each individual than if the offence had been committed in his individual capacity...
...long days, one long week. The 23rd week of the strike in Passaic, N. J., opened with Albert Weisbord, of the Harvard Law School, bespectacled, frail dynamo of the textile workers, making preparations for an all summer battle: "We shall hold on like bulldogs, no matter what punishment they inflict upon us," he said...
...requires instrutors in full courses to test the work of the first half year on the final examination. It is a minor rule because it is an orphan. No one seems to enforce it or obey it. Hence there can be no protest against the educational injustice it might inflict by demanding detailed knowledge best forgotten. In its present status, the rule evokes comment only on the mild absurdity of its existence...
Such a statement is an insult and the severest slam you could inflict upon a class of women a large part of whom are university graduates, all of whom are high school graduates, and of whom is required three to four years of practical and theoretical training to fit them for their profession...
...There is not any method, beastly or exquisitely refined, that the police commissars, detectives, officers, and often judges themselves, have not employed in order to inflict the maximum physical pain without actually killing when information is desired. Beatings are administered until the victims faint and then they are revived with cold water and the process is repeated. Boiling water is poured into the ears. Their nails are pulled out. Burning hot eggs are applied under the arm pits, creating incurable wounds...