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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lax Participle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...BALDING CALLS FOR REBUKE. I KNOW THAT TIME IS PROUD-PERHAPS RIGHTLY-OF ITS OWN VOCABULARY BUT MY LATE AND DEAR FRIEND WILLIAM BOLITHO WHOSE MASTERY OF STYLE NOT EVEN TIME CAN QUESTION ALWAYS WARNED ME AGAINST PRESENT PARTICIPLES SAVE WHERE NECESSARY BECAUSE THEY WERE HE SAID EVIDENCE OF LAX OR LAZY PROSE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Able-bodied Princess Juliana of The Netherlands subscribed her royal blood to Canada's pool for the war-wounded.... War-rationed King George and Queen Elizabeth made their "weekend roast" last all week....Leopold, King of the Belgians, completed his first year as a prisoner of war, under lax guard in a Laeken castle near Brussels.... Gravely ill at Doorn was Germany's ex-Kaiser Wilhelm....Carol of Rumania plumped bag and baggage down in Havana at last, told 60 reporters and cameramen he was "a simple refugee." .... Finally legit picaresque Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...lax enforcement of the letter of the law shows the need for a change on the statute books. The general rules as laid down by the University are "subject to interpretation" by masters and senior tutors, and consequently varying degrees of strictness have developed in different Houses. In one, a student simply signs a book for guests on Saturdays and Sundays, without having to obtain any official sanction; in another, permissions are dispensed with in practice; and in all Houses infringements by students of some or all of the rules are common. Uniformity cannot and should not crush out "states...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSEPITALITY | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...conditions, the regimented press urged Frenchmen to realize that they cannot expect to recover "the easy life of yore." More than mere anxiety lay behind a Government decree providing the death penalty for civilians found with firearms after July 30. In the chaotic days of the armistice, control was lax and a large percentage of military equipment was not surrendered. Thoughts of this "phantom arsenal" in the hands of a desperate citizenry caused sleepless nights to the quasi-Führers at Vichy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hour of Truth | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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