Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under this old law, the court last week sentenced Niemöller not to imprisonment in jail but to "honorable detention in a fortress"* for seven months. Showing definite leniency, the court, which might have given Niemöller two years, decreed he had already served more than the sentence imposed while awaiting trial, need only pay a $600 fine to go free last week, so far as the court was concerned...
...studies the language, tries to under stand the complex religion of "the refined and fortunate and vulnerable land of Egypt," and makes himself valuable to his master by his ability to write and calculate. From the great fortress of Thel, through the religious centres of On and Per-Bastet, on a nine-day voyage up the crowded Nile past Memphis and the pyramids, he gives himself up to observation, impressed and depressed at the grandeur of a civilization of which, as a child of the desert, he has heard only evil...
...reaching the end of their patience with Japanese aggression in the Far East, to hint gravely that in the event of a general war in the Pacific the navies of Britain and the U. S. will be able to make use of Singapore, now the greatest naval base, greatest fortress in the East...
Build us a fortress pledged to song...
...days to guide the souls of Tibetans, while the Dalai Lama, an older and wilier man, conducted its temporal affairs. The ''Buddha of Mercy" proved to be more sinister than merciful. From his intrigues the Panchen Lama fled in 1924, leaving him in full sway in his fortress-palace in Lhasa until his death four years ago (TIME...