Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scores of prominent M. P.s of the Prime Minister's own Conservative Party believe with beefy British commonsense that, as one of them said privately, " 'Mandates' are just League of Nations talk and twaddle- Palestine is British, like every other 'Mandate' and colony we hold!-and we're not going to ask Geneva what we can do with...
...interview ended with Artist Woolf's saying. "Well, Senator, I hope that you will let me draw your picture again . . . when you assume the next office which I am sure you will hold...
...British cannot partition Palestine, which they hold as a mandate from the League, without the consent of Geneva's Permanent Mandates Commission, and its president is the Italian Marquis Alberto Theodoli-another reason why the British Cabinet were being nice to Il Duce...
Mouse Queen Blowers' mice do not scamper madly around her drawing room. They live in nesting boxes-from three to seven in each-stacked in tiers in little huts which hold some 2,000 mice each. Daily they are fed a teaspoonful of oats, alternated with a little stale bread soaked in milk. Mating, classification, feeding, selection for marketing, is a fulltime job for Mrs. Blowers and two assistants. Her mousery produces an average of 1,000 mice a week. Prices range from $1.50 a dozen for mice for experimental laboratories, to $5 to $7.50 each for the best...
...German peasant girl whom he deserted 25 years back when he was offered a canonry. Since that time the mere mention of Germany has been enough to make him go to pieces. But it has never occurred to him that a child might turn up. Servants get hold of the first clues. With these and Silburians' devious skill in putting two & two together-the Canon's increasing nervousness, physical resemblances, further note-comparing by returned English tourists-the news soon gets around. After hearing the Canon"s full confession (a mixture of contrition and lyricism about nude bathing...