Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet Chief of Police reached for the code. He read-Article 120- that imprisonment is the punishment for "exploiting the religious prejudices of the masses against the Soviet government and fostering superstition among the masses." Summoning trusty agents of police, he directed them to the village of Pskoff, to search the doings of Priest Troitski, to bring him to justice. At Pskoff the police heard tales. Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles. One teardrop, applied to a wound, healed it. By virtue of the tears, Lydia Belskaya was cured...
...things go well with the 'third ticket' there will be a permanent 'third party.' Will it need leaders? It will. Senator LaFollette is sick and aging. So Senator Wheeler shoots in the back the party that sent him to the Senate and fares forth in search of new political grass and water-courses...
...wonderful model, with a few strands of twisted rubber driving a tiny propeller, was released from a captive balloon at a height of over 600 feet, went up in regular circles to a height of 1,500 feet and disappeared from view in the direction of Versailles. A search was conducted for the tiny airplane...
Berlin police requested permission from the Presidents of the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag (Prussian Parliament) to search the rooms in the buildings that had been set aside for the use of Communist Deputies...
Both Presidents waived the immunity of their members. Defending his action in the Prussian Landtag, President Leinert declared amid Communist jeers: "Immunity is always to be defended unless thereby the general welfare is jeopardized. But as I will not protect murderers, I permitted the police to make the search...