Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, the question of capital punishment has come up again. Much opinion has been aired, editorially and otherwise, and conclusions have been varied. From lively descriptions of ghostly apparitions in the prison, doctored up with as much sensationalism as possible, to thoughtful attempts to reach an ultimate judgment upon the whole problem by virtue of a particular example newspapers have treated the case from every conceivable aspect. And so the controversy is again aroused, with more than usual intensity this time, as to whether a murderer should pay with his own life. For various humanitarian reasons...
...Miller was Amherst's chief mainstay; he was especially good on the defensive, time and again his long reach and heavier weight snatching away many Harvard goals...
...After a second perusal, however, I doubt if its maliciousness was intentional. . . . It is my belief bottomed upon years of experience, that while a newspaper should and can be better than the community in which it is published, it must not be too much better or it will rapidly reach the state of bankruptcy in which Bonfils and Tammen found the Denver Post back in the 'go's. In other words, a newspaper, to a degree, must give the public what it wants. Perhaps Bonfils and Tammen erred in the degree, but taking the whole thing...
...invented by Dr. G. W. Pickard, electrical engineer, has been operating in his private laboratories, but is being transferred to the Astronomical Laboratory because of the more advantageous location and the recent study that is being made there of the sun-spot cycle, a phenomenon which is expected to reach its peak in size and number this month...
...honors. Barnes, who forced Carr to his record with a vault of 13 feet nine inches, ought not to be very far behind the record-holder. The best men Europe can put against us are Dane, who has done 13 feet, and Reed and Lindblad, who cannot even reach that mark...