Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this point, the complicated amnesties available to the insane afford legal loopholes for the murderer. If it can be proven that the killer was crazy, and by the very promiscuity of his murders he is so branded, he will obtain special consideration separating him from the good, honest burglar who killed a man to escape capture. The Omaha sniper, if his case is cleverly managed, may be committed to a state lunatic asylum from which he can conceivably be released as "cured" when outward sings of abnormality disappear. Whereas the honest burglar with understandable motives for murder suffers the extreme...
Since the privilege is established only in order to make possible more work outside of the lecture room, any student who wishes to graduate in three or three and half years must fulfill the regular requirements and obtain 17 full points for his degree...
...with less than the 17 full courses previously required. He may drop a course in his Junior year thereby having only 16 courses in case the privilege is not given him in his Senior year, end if it is given him again he can drop still another course and obtain his degree with distinction on only 15 points or courses...
...warnings, the Attorney General of Mexico ordered the arrest and deportation of all priests who are not native Mexicans. A few hours later Mexican soldiers marched into numerous churches, seized the officiating clergy, marched them off to jail without so much as allowing them to change their vestments or obtain personal belongings from their homes...
...first place Mr. Sutherland has filled his picture with a lot of funny guys which strain needlessly for an extra laugh. There is plenty of humor in the expressionless face of Wallace Beery without going into Gorge Jean Nathanisms to obtain it. Secondly, the direction is ham, and by that we mean that it is distinctly ordinary and obvious. The scenes are not quite real, the French village looks like some left over set and in short the picture is continually off key if compared to King Vidor's splendid instrument...