Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baumes Code, effective last year in New York, copied widely since, imposes life imprisonment upon any thrice-convicted person who is convicted a fourth time, no matter how trivial the fourth offender may seem. Lately, under Michigan's new Baumes Law, a three-time convict was sentenced for _ life when caught with one bottle of bootleg...
Last week, Mr. Baker went about life as follows...
...Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the presiding jurist, Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons, became more & more an object of public interest. Justice Siddons is a great-grandson of the late Actress Sarah Kemble Siddons. Concerning himself he says: "In my youth I thought my choice of a life's work would be either journalism or the stage. But fate decreed that I should become a lawyer. Otherwise-well, who can say what might have happened? In so far as I know, no one is carrying on the stage tradition of the Kemble family...
...British contention is that the dam, if built, would jeopardize the whole water supply of the Sudan and Egypt, the life blood of those regions; for the Blue Nile, whose confluence with the White Nile at Khartum forms the Nile, is the most important tributary of the main river...
...Turkey prescribes that each new Grand National Assembly shall elect from among the assembled deputies a President of the Republic. The life of an Assembly is for four years and the term of the presidential office is ipso facto for the same period. There is no opposition...