Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Ethiopian females, issued a veiled but stern decree for punishment of "anyone who performs any act that might injure the prestige of the Italian people in territories of the Empire." Finally, the Grand Council, taking cognizance of the fact that Britain has for years been extremely reluctant to admit more Jews to Palestine, because of the bloody resistance of the Arabs (see p. 22), made a tentative gesture. "Dependent upon the attitude toward Fascism assumed by Jews in the World as a whole." the Grand Council announced that it "does not exclude the possibility of conceding controlled immigration...
...were raised at such antipodean antics. Two months ago, however, a Chicago stockbroker named James Smith Ferebee played 144 holes of golf in one day to win the other half of a Virginia plantation he owned with his partner Fred Tuerk, a fellow-broker. U.S. golf addicts had to admit that there were strange golfers...
Author Hughes protests that In Hazard is not really a book about a storm, but about fear. That he conveys plenty of fear, tense readers will admit. But what will stick in most minds are the sharp descriptive passages-of a momentary lull when sea birds descend on the decks like mosquitoes, their only sound the crunching they make as they are crushed underfoot; of a scene, illuminated by lightning, when the crew looks out on a mountainside of water crawling with sharks...
Although the B. A. A. doesn't wish to divulge its methods for finding violations of the ticket regulations, Getchell did admit that before any sell-out game, there are as many as six H. A. A. men assigned to discovering culprits...
...type that the growing generation will be forewarned against the blackcoat swindle. And you should also remember that even in the Catholic Church there are sincere Germans working as priests, who are utterly devoted to the National-Socialist philosophy. With their help, we shall occupy the last- and, I admit, extremely solid-positions of the Church...