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Word: jails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock in the morning he heard someone knocking at his door; when he went to open it he was overpowered, bound by three men who had already entered the house and were hiding in the hall. His wife, hearing the scuffle, telephoned to Sheriff Robinson. The Sheriff found the jail yard filled with squatting figures. He was admitted through the front door, knocked down, laid beside Jailer Taylor. The visitors drove off with their dark, gibbering prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LYNCHING: Refinement of Tactics | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...less by about 42.5 times what they would have been had he not matriculated. Recent investigations made in Federal and State penitentiaries prove this to be the situation at the present time. Furthermore it is shown that if one is graduated he has about one chance of going to jail to 103 for every man who is not a college graduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINLESS COLLEGE | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

...West India Goods store near the corner specialized in salt fish, rum, molasses, vinegar, farm produce, grain, tea and coffee, hardware, paint, lard oils and a hundred other general commodities. The local jail occupied the property now the site of the Pi Eta clubhouse near the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets. The community was small and everybody knew everybody else and all about them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELLS OF HARVARD SQUARE EVOLUTION FROM COUNTRY LANE TO CITY'S CENTER | 10/15/1926 | See Source »

...beat among the trees, roaring up the dirt path, nearer in the night? A motor-cycle leaped out of the circle of woods; another followed; white men with pistols untied the writhing woman, took the witch-man, the warriors into Durban, tried them in court and put them in jail, saying that they had been guilty of disorderly conduct, at midnight, in the jungle, while tom-toms rustled and torches veered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Spider and Ants | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Lopez at once fired again upon the bandits, killed three of them. Upon examination these proved to be General Bonifacio Hinojosa, onetime Mayor of Huitzilac, Miguel Garcia, jail warden of Huitzilac, and one Juan Ortiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Foul Murder | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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