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...penitentiary; for each of the other three years he could be given a five-year sentence; on every count he could be fined $10,000; total, 17 years, $50,000. Inconsistent or not, the Government was satisfied with the verdict, moved to attach his worldly possessions in lieu of the $215,000 he owed...
Following, but not to the letter, the stories concocted by Author Booth Tarkington, Penrod (Leon Janney) steals a letter which his sister is writing to an admirer, reads it aloud in lieu of an English composition. He and his friends belong to the In-or-In Club of which Penrod is president. When obliged to initiate a sniveling little teacher's pet, they paddle him till he needs a doctor, slick down his hair so thoroughly with tar that he makes his next appearance with a shaved skull. Penrod and his friend Sam have a fight at a birthday...
...Barboursville, W. Va., President Leonard Riggleman of Morris Harvey College announced that farm produce would be accepted this year in lieu of cash for tuition...
Some may consider it would be more desirable for the Baltimore & Ohio to have a rail entrance into New York City. In lieu of this disability, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at great expense has provided excellent station facilities in New York and by an automobile coach service transports its patrons from these various stations direct to its train side in Jersey City in a satisfactory and pleasing way. This arrangement has been approved many times by written and oral commendations of satisfied patrons...
...Volts, The Germans, Drs. F. Lange and A. Brasch, would have had their expenses paid to Pasadena, if they had been able to get away from their research at the University of Berlin. In lieu of their presence, they sent a report, read by Dr. Alexander Goetz of Caltech, which caused much amazement. In 1927 the two first rigged a wire between two peaks at Monte Generoso, near the Italian-Swiss border. That is a region of frequent and violent thunderstorms. Like Benjamin Franklin, the Germans intended to bring lightning to earth. When the rigging was set and lightning bolted...