Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crime, sport, the arts, literature. News of other nations than Italy must be cut to a skeletonized resume. III. After Nov. 1, all gasoline imported into Italy must be mixed with a fixed proportion of Italian alcohol. IV. Builders are forbidden to erect luxurious private houses of any sort, must confine themselves to public buildings and to dwellings for workmen, the lesser bourgeoisie. V. Restaurateurs and vintners are prohibited from selling anything after 10 p.m., from opening until further notice any new premises whatever for the sale of food or beverages. All bread must hereafter contain at least...
...articled decree, clear, direct, robust, imposes a fine of 500 pesos or 15 days' imprisonment on non-Mexican-born clerics whenever they perform "a religious act" (ail-inclusively defined), or give lay instruction to students, or assemble (together or with their congregations) for a religious meeting of any sort...
Pedro Guevera, Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, appeared on the House floor to score the Bacon bill, to protest that "Moro" was only a sort of nickname for Mohammedan Filipinos; that "Moros" and Filipinos were homogeneous; of one racial stock, of like temperaments and character...
...earth. They swarmed at the hips of Zeus and between the legs of his throne, executed by Panaeus, nephew and assistant of Phidias. Scholars have hinted that the figure owed its fame to these entertaining adornments, but Roman writers commented on the power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep pagan content, that lived in the head. Here was no irritable Roman Jove, waiting at the least vexation to scatter thunderbolts in all directions like sparklers, but a Grecian gentleman, portentous as a hill, poised serenely as a wave...
...similarly, last week he joined with certain Dutch and Swedish banks, as well as U. S. investment houses, in selling $25,000,000 of United States of Brazil bonds. A month ago he sold $35,000,000 of like ones, has the whole $60,000,000 protected by a sort of first mortgage on Brazil's consumption taxes and import duties...