Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bruises of rifle butts, Tommies put 300 suspects in a concentration camp on the site of King Herod's ancient citadel. Although a 24-hour curfew prevailed, the British command showed its regard for Moslem religious feelings by agreeing to a request of the Moslem Supreme Council to permit 40 Arabs to attend the Friday noon prayers at the Mosque of Omar so that those services, held every Friday for centuries, would not be interrupted. When, on the third day of the siege, a minaret sniper killed a British soldier that permission was withdrawn...
...book deals with only ten days at the end of the Lindberghs' six-month survey flight around the North Atlantic in 1933-the days when, on their way home, they landed at the Cape Verde Islands on their way to South America, found the sea too rough to permit a takeoff, returned to Africa and waited impatiently for wind strong enough to get their heavily loaded Lockheed Sirius into...
Underlining the right answers to questions composes the major portion of the written grilling. Students in biological sciences should know of what does the placenta not permit free passage from mother to foetus. The sample test shows "blood corpuscles" underlined as the correct answer...
Pompously the Grand Council decreed last week that henceforth no Italian, male or female, may marry a non-Italian unless the Italian Ministry of Interior is willing to make an exception and issue a special permit for such mixed marriage. Further, the Grand Council, well knowing that Italian males have been prone to "go native" with Ethiopian females, issued a veiled but stern decree for punishment of "anyone who performs any act that might injure the prestige of the Italian people in territories of the Empire." Finally, the Grand Council, taking cognizance of the fact that Britain has for years...
Father Simon's successor, Father Erasmus Dooley, entered the church. He left it carrying, in a pyx, the Blessed Sacrament. Ten of the "liberators," Catholics who averred that they wished simply to give Father Simon his freedom and permit services to be resumed in the church, took possession of the rectory. But not for long. The pickets reorganized, mobilized their reserves, stormed the rectory with 100 men, beat up the "liberators," with bloody emphasis on one of them, a trustee of the church named Florian Vecellia, who took his bruises home to bed. Pickets bundled their not-unwilling Father...