Sentence examples for while interned from inspiring English sources

While interned he wrote the novel Sally Cavanagh, or the Untenanted Graves (1869).

He learned to read only at the age of 14, while interned in various reform schools.

While interned, he meets Col. William McNamara Bruce Williss), the highest-ranking officer in the camp, whose clipped, brittle style doesn't mask his dislike for the newest arrival.

In particular, Weil began the proof of a variant of the Riemann hypothesis for algebraic curves while interned in Rouen, France, in 1940 for his deliberate failure, as a pacifist, to report for duty in the French army.

Museum of Jewish Heritage: Holocaust Diary (Wednesday) David Koker, a Jewish college student, kept a diary of his life while interned in a concentration camp in the Netherlands in the mid-1940s.

Take the case of Burri (1915-1995), the Italian artist who started painting on U.S. mail sacks while interned as a prisoner of war in Texas in the early forties.

A1 Interned Americans Visit Past The Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho housed 13,000 interned Japanese-Americans during World War II.

While on antisubmarine duty with the St. Laurent 75 miles west of Ireland in July 1940, he orchestrated the rescue of about 860 survivors of the British liner Arandora Star, which was sunk by a German U-boat while carrying German and Italian prisoners of war and interned aliens from Liverpool to Newfoundland.

So while the landscapes may appear somewhat ominous and the story of the interned children wanting to go home may seem a bit frightening, Say's gently evocative paintings and his plain but lyrical writing prevent this work from being too disturbing for school-age readers.

The response was literally overwhelming: in Hawaii (which had not interned its Japanese American citizens), a call for roughly 1500 volunteers led 10,000 Japanese Americans to recruiting offices; while of course perspectives were more mixed in the camps, more than 2000 interned Japanese American men volunteered.

On 6 April 1917 the United States declared war and immediately seized interned German ships at U.S. and territorial ports, but unlike most other German ships interned by the United States, Princess Alice had not been sabotaged by her German crew before her seizure.