Word: maze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign-owned property in the U.S., whether controlled by countries whose assets are frozen or not. Aliens will be required to list any U.S. property worth more than $1,000 which they own now or have acquired since last June.* Thus it may be possible to track down the maze of transfers whereby Germany and Italy have concealed their actual holdings...
...Inquiry by TIME through a maze of German Government bureaus, divisions and departments has failed to disclose any Nazi decree against sale of contraceptives. However, contraceptive equipment used by women is not manufactured and has vanished from drugstores and doctors' cabinets. Fromm's product, a common article used by men, although doubtless much employed as a contraceptive, is considered primarily an antivenereal prophylactic, and so is heartily approved of by the health-conscious Nazis. This product is on sale in every drugstore, in many hotel washrooms and nightclubs. Great quantities have been shipped to France for occupation troops...
When architect James W. McLaughlin in the afternoon session involved the court in a maze of contradictory figures and dates, Judge Williams was forced to recess the case until this morning...
...most defeating periods of history in which to reach maturity now giving anything they have managed to achieve to the hollow word, "Freedom." But more and more I am feeling like a lonely voice crying against something so big that the futility of struggle is totally accentuated by a maze of knitting needles for the British and pennies for the Greeks...
...might have been able to find his way in and out of this architectural forest, a city-bred Freshman picking his way between the forbidding Grays and the frowning Matthews, perhaps too shy to ask directions, finds the feat a tough one. For him the Yard is a bewildering maze. Many of the buildings have no nameplates...