Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murder trial. But it was on the mercy of Governor Fuller that many a Sacco & Vanzetti sympathizer pinned his hopes. Leading U. S. newspapers, even the most conservative Foreign Journals, urged clemency. An example?the venerable Spectator in England said: "Certain facts make us feel that justice in the strict sense of the word would be truly served either by the release of the prisoners or by a further term of imprisonment the greater part of which might be taken as having been already satisfied by the six years under which the prisoners have lain under sentence of death...
...when he was but a prince and she was the favorite lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, better known by her pen name, "Carmen Silva." Queen Elizabeth, sympathizing with the lovers, permitted them to be constantly together. When news of this came to strict, arbitrary King Carol of Rumania, he broke off the affair by the ruthless step of banishing Mile. Vacarescu from Rumania, and later sending Queen Elizabeth into enforced residence in Germany. Last week Helene Vacarescu, overcome by grief at the death of Ferdinand I, left Paris to spend a period of mourning...
When we are under that strict code...
...object of the League is the extermination of the beverage liquor traffic, for the accomplishing of which the alliance of all who are in harmony with this object are invited. The League pledges itself to avoid affiliation with any political party as such and to maintain an attitude of strict neutrality on all questions of public policy not directly and immediately concerned with the traffic in strong drink...
...will come and until then one must be content with the rudiments. This is possibly true but such an explanation does not account for the fact that the requirements for a Business School degree are to be met in only two years time. If the second year, which in strict proportion should be as valuable as the first and which in theory should be even more so, is only a repetition of the beginning, then it is unnecessary and undosirable. The probabilities are, however, that the present length of the course is the proper one, but the fault lies...