Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year. The result was a batch of legislation, known as the Baumes laws, which went into effect in July, which increase the penalties on various types of crimes. The most important provision is that which sentences a man to life imprisonment upon his fourth or subsequent conviction for a minor felony. This particular statute has been the subject of heated legal debate and was "finally upheld by the New York Supreme Court last month. No doubt, it has made habitual criminals think twice before committing that fourth felony. Crime was reduced in New York in 1926 for this and other...
...scurrilous newspaper (the Post), which put a terrible premium upon the social transgressions which sensational news pages did much to promote. Judge Lindsey has been a very busy man for 26 years, dealing with recalcitrant, vicious, ignorant and also foolish, reckless and genuinely happy young people. Out of minor bench in a secondary U. S. city, Judge Lindsey has made national rostrum...
Those of the throng who knew aught of motors and who were able to push near enough to the cars to see, sensed at once that the Show held nothing new (of importance) from an engineering standpoint Certain cars, it is true, had effected minor improvements: additional bearings to the crank shaft (Dodge); rubber cushioning of engines (Buick); adding of a fourth speed (Paige); crankcase ventilation (Oldsmobile). But all of these features have been used before...
...game. His judgement, because it is obviously the best, must be taken as final. In none of the Princeton-Harvard games since the war has any member of either team received a major penalty. There have been one or two penalties for unnecessary roughness, some for holding and other minor infringements, all of which were quite evenly distributed, but there has been no action by any referee to indicate that Princeton-Harvard games are in any way distinct from other games on the Harvard schedule in cleanness of play. This silent record is conclusive. Against it, no matter how honest...
...roadhouse. It had dynamite in the cellar, machine guns in the windows. Men sat around, spat on the floor, fingered the triggers of their rifles. One day, last November, an airplane flew over and dropped some bombs which missed the house. Nobody was killed; it was only a minor disturbance. Last week "Shady Rest" trembled, burned, collapsed. It became a ruin overnight. And what is more, it contained four bodies, charred beyond recognition, full of ugly bullet holes...