Word: detain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the authorities sought to make inquiry a British cruiser appeared and interfered. It threatened the villagers on both shores with cannon. The Chinese authorities were obliged to detain the British merchant vessels, taking the matter up with the British Consul at Chungking...
Politics must either not detain the traveler long or absorb his whole attention. Dictatorship is absolute. There is no freedom of speech, political assembly, or from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Deportations to Siberia still occur. People are still shot because an aristocratic emigre in Paris drunkenly mumbled sounds which resembled their name. Suspicion and espionage are rife. But the people seem happy, in the main...
...greater general scientific importance and interest than the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It is held every year between Christmas and New Year's Day, so that scientists may be able to attend in full force. At other times, university duties might detain some or activities in far lands might keep them away...
...That the immigration quota law sometimes makes it necessary to detain cabin as well as steerage passengers, but there are generally less than 100 British subjects under detention, very few of whom are cabin passengers. As for cages, wire partitions are placed in the rooms to prevent theft and assault...
...neutral attitude. The Allies maintain that a preliminary treaty of peace ending war between Poland and Russia was ratified November 2, 1920, and the final treaty was signed at Riga, March 18, 1921, or three days before the incident. It appears that Germany had no right to detain the ship. Professor Walter Schücking (German) was appointed a judge ad interim in conformity with the statutes of the Court...