Word: punished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always takes care to treat the Sultan's subjects with great tact. He has infinite patience, but, driven to act, he moves with merciless rapidity. The Arabs, who almost always admire a brave and wise man, admire Marshal Lyautey; for he never fails to punish the culpable, no matter how difficult it may be, and he never fails to pay the utmost respect to native traditions and beliefs. In that he is both brave and wise. All this does Abd-el-Krim know...
...began to see the futility of his own tactics, in view of sporadic terrorist activities. He saw that Swaraj could be obtained only through supporting the dyarchical system and the lawful suppression of violence. He asked the Government to cooperate by abrogating its arbitrary powers to arrest and punish agitators. Gandhi joined him last autumn, and non-coöperation came...
...faculty has always punished the authors of "Bottle Night" disturbances. They occur almost annually and result in two or three hot-headed Freshmen being separated from the university. Talk of athletic or other extra-curriculum privileges of the class being taken away is not encouraged by the authorities, who insist that beyond a few individual penalties the subject is likely to be dropped. The faculty does not intend to punish the entire class for a disturbance created by only a small fraction of its membership...
...Chester Noyes Greenough" was responsible. First he caught one of the chameleons. "Eva", and then he reached one of the canaries, which died unnamed. Most of the other pets were shipped away, out of reach of the killer. But Chester was not even punished, for his owners have not yet discovered what will punish his irrepressible spirit...
...Cutten could do nothing about it save abuse the Messrs. Howell and Livermore beneath his breath and hope with a great hope that Secretary Jardine would order an investigation, discover collusion, punish his oppressors...