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Paradise, Canto XXVII, wherein St. Peter states that his successor (Boniface VIII) has turned the Church into a sewer choked with blood. He also quoted from Guicciardini, Carducci and other poets to show that "during 20 centuries, free-thinking men have often had occasion to think of Popes as guilty of other men's blood." Cried he: "So, do you want to send Dante to jail?" After 50 minutes' recess, the court found Laura Diaz guilty, sentenced her to eight months' imprisonment, suspended the sentence on a surety of good conduct...
Brushing aside an international agreement and overruling a decision of the Mexican Supreme Court rendered year ago, President Lazaro Cardenas last week nationalized by decree 2,000,000 acres of oil lands held largely by foreign concerns in the States of Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas. A sweeping decree, employing Article XXVII of the Constitution, which makes all subsoil wealth the property of the Government, turned over to the National Petroleum Administration some 100,000 acres subleased by Standard Oil Co. of California, 250,000 acres leased by the Richmond Petroleum Co. of Mexico, Standard Oil Co. of California subsidiary...
Pliny records (Nat. Hist. Lib. vii. -xxvii) a similar instance. A more detailed account of such a phenomenon is given in a curious tract in the Bodleian [Bodl. Pamph. Godw. 87. (4)] which bears the following title: Prodlgium Willingkamense: Or, authentic Memoirs in the Life of a Boy, Born at Willingham, near Cambridge, October 31, 1741; who, before he was Three Years old, was Three Feet, Eight inches high And had the Marks of Puberty. With some Reflections on his Understanding, Strength, Temper, Memory, Genius and Knowledge. By T. Dawkes, Surgeon. London...
...Nietzsche." XXVII. Professor Henri Lichtenberger. Sever...
...want to call the attention of the Dean to this shocking state of affairs and to ask all the fellows to do what they can, by words of advice and by good example, to lead these young men from the "paths of wickedness in which they are stumbling." (Leviticus xxvii, 7). PERCIVAL FRANCIS...