Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Discussion of the Problems of Sanitation from Earliest Times to the Present Day." Unlike most plumbings of such channels, Cleanliness and Godliness is a first-rate literary essay, overflowing with sanity and bubbling with wit. Its heroes include Moses (whose laws, says Author Reynolds, were based less on divine sanction than on pamphlets issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Health); Elizabethan Sir John Harington, the inventor of the water-closet ("his name [is] writ in water"), and Victorian Sir Edwin Chadwick (he popularized glazed earthenware drains...
They had set out under the auspices of the Chinese, but were quickly taken in hand by the Russians. One group was confined for 54 hours in Mukden and 53 hours in Changchun, for arriving without official sanction. At Changchun, calling on frosty Major General Fedor Karlov, they were curtly told to stay away from Red Army installations. At the end of the interview, Karlov told newsmen: "We have no machines to take you back to the hotel." At 10 below zero, they trudged the three miles back through the snow. Several noted that U.S. Lend-Lease trucks and cars...
...Budget Casting-As a straight storyteller and creator of character, Novelist Schmitt is often very competent, but on a high-mediocre level which suggests that, in trying to write a universal story to be universally read, she has tempered her imagination and intelligence to the shorn middlebrow. Under Biblical sanction, there are a lot of women with alerted breasts and, for the ladies' trade, some ten scenes in which a man is displayed "naked except for his loincloth." The characterization, generally perceptive, but never "difficult," is smooth and simplified enough to suggest A-budget movie casting. But Author Schmitt...
Remarking that the Corporation had already indicated approval of funds for homes whose management would remain in University hands, Claflin stated that he would submit both proposals in writing to the Council as soon as the Corporation gave its final sanction...
...logic, and your N.A.M. spokesman gets up and begins to talk about Bolshevism, the American Way, and the evil forces that are out to ruin the country; and all that old-style . . . hogwash goes out with the imprint of the N.A.M. and the apparent sanction of American industry...