Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venal a heart those medals covered Londoners first discovered last November, at the end of a scandalous trial of a huge arson ring. Before he was sentenced to 14 years in jail, the ringleader, one Leopold Harris, testified that he had had nearly every Salvage Corps officer in his pocket. Of the ring's ?500,000 annual takings in insurance, Captain Miles had received a paltry ?25 a month for overlooking cases of suspected arson...
...called off IF each would agree to return to the economic status quo of last summer. Britain, however, was able to strengthen her position with a new commercial treaty with Soviet Russia to take the place of the one canceled last March at the time of the sabotage trial of British electrical engineers in Moscow (TIME, March 27). Waiting brought Britain advantages. Last year the Soviet sold twice as much to Britain as she bought. Under the new treaty Russia must buy $1,000,000 worth of British goods for every $1,600,000 worth she sells, and the ratio...
...open the Oral Divisional Examinations of the Juniors and Seniors to the public, we see another vain yearning of the Harvard educator towards Oxford mediaevalism, towards sanctification by tradition at the expense of the student. There is absolutely no question that the burden of publicity is an unnecessary trial to the cultural neophyte. To pass such an oral examination with success would require not only a proper knowledge of the field, but considerable skill in facing an audience with composure. If the candidate is expected to think during his examination, that is, put more into his answers than parroted memory...
...ruled by an insatiable desire to murder small children. In satisfying his passion he terrorizes the city: the police unable to find him, take to rounding up the underworld: whereupon gangland sets out to get the murderer in order to save themselves. They succeed and give him a mock trial, but before they can kill him the police rush in and the picture ends on a weak note...
...patient, nodded gravely. Outside his hospital door they admitted that they too had never before seen anything like it. The three adjourned to Dr. Nickerson's office, thumbed through his medical books, returned to the hospital, then back to the books. Finally by a system of trial and error they diagnosed Trapper Macdougall's ailment as tularemia. Only treatment they knew of was an early blood transfusion from a human being who had recovered from the disease. Their patient was already too far gone for that. Besides, no one in New England or Canada had ever before been...