Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Protestant seminarians in 1939, only 100 were permitted ordination after their views had been examined by State officials. The other 900 refused to Nazify their faith, went into training in underground Confessional seminaries for certificates which Confessional congregations will accept in lieu of ordination. Cut off from any possibility of salaries from Nazi-levied church taxes, they must live on the scant $45 a month which the Confessional Synod can allow them...
Last year an emissary of ex-King Zog of the Albanians approached Mr. Gade with the object of installing the King in the chateau. It was suggested to Mr. Gade that in lieu of rent he would be decorated with the Albanian Order of Skanderbeg. Mr. Gade just wanted his rent. He was then presented with an autographed photograph of ex-Queen Geraldine. Mr. Gade still wanted his rent. The King then forwarded a handsome knickknack, which he said had been a personal gift from Tsar Nicholas of all the Russias. Mr. Gade had the present traced to a curiosity...
This year had been foremost in nearly all American crewmen's minds because of the projected Olympics, but when the war came this reason was gone, only to be revived again with the possibility of an East-West race in lieu of the trials...
When Congress met that day Mr. O'Connor jumped to his feet, said: "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that, on Page 1248 of the Congressional Record. .. the word 'allies' be stricken out and the word 'bellies' inserted in lieu thereof...
Judge Matthew T. Abruzzo, before whom they were arraigned, ordered them held for trial on March 6. All 17 had been held in lieu of bonds ranging from $10,000 to $50,000. After pleas had been entered for each, the balls were reduced to sums ranging from...