Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than four hours the court-martial reached its decision. Tobiansky was stood against a sunbaked mud wall of an old Arab building. He refused a blindfold as he stood at attention facing half a dozen Haganah riflemen. His last words were: "Take care...
Resourceful U.S. domestic wildcats had found another way to get around CAB regulations. By keeping their flights entirely within the borders of one state, they could flip their tails at CAB. In California, six wildcats flew between Los Angeles and San Francisco for $9.95-less than half the fare charged by United, American and four other certified carriers...
...will use much of the stone himself in a Philadelphia housing project that he is building as a sideline to his auto business. The rest, he figures, will find an easy market: the Italian stone is far less expensive than U.S. cinder block...
Factory-priced at $849, the Crosley roadster will deliver anywhere in the U.S. for less than...
...readers of Sheean's previous works of self-revelation (Personal History, Not Peace But a Sword, etc.), such metaphysical posturing will seem familiar. No reporter was ever less contented with bare facts or more portentously absorbed in getting at the groundswell-meaning of things for himself than "Jimmy" Sheean. His 1947 "formula" did not satisfy him long. Lead, Kindly Light is the story of a new conviction that came to take its place: the conviction of an immanent and transcendent God who cannot be explained away. The man who gave him his conviction: India's late great Mahatma...