Word: metes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extraordinary sessions have been called. On one of those occasions in July 1934, the Führer assembled his legislative yes-men to hear him tell why he had found it necessary to kill off several hundred Nazi Party men the month before. Two years later he thought it mete to explain publicly why he had ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland...
...confession of Assassin Nikolaev who was later shot, the confessions last week were by far the most important to the Kirov case. Over 100 Russians had been shot for confessing less, some after admitting mere "ideological community" with the "spirit of the crime." What super-punishment could Judge Ulrich mete out to these super-guilty secret police...
...standards demanded by their examinations. Although violations of the confidence will inevitably be made, a compromise with the underlying theory does not give these principles adequate chance for success. Preferably, upperclassmen not on probation should be allowed to cut at their pleasure; at any rate, the College should mete out similar treatment to each member of the two classes...
...other was that his real name was B. B. ("Bunce'') Napier. On his trembling lap lay a Bible opened to Matthew 7: 1-2: Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Napier said he guessed he knew how Leo Frank felt that night...
...There is only one law in the Heimwehr. I command and you obey. . . . Every leader down to the last man must henceforth avenge every Nazi attack. If legal authorities fail to mete out justice, take the law into your own hands...