Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allow me to congratulate you for the interesting biographical sketch of John Hays Hammond in the May 10 issue. How often have we heard his name without any very full knowledge of his extraordinary career...
...sleep and sleep again! But I have so many important things to do. ... I am quite surprised that we have succeeded so quickly. Everything went like a stroke of lightning! There were extraordinary scenes in this unprecedented battle. As it was, the battle was often suspended to allow women and children to move...
Arturo wields the baton, Benito the thunderbolt. Arturo Toscanini, most famed of Italian opera conductors, has refused for three successive years to allow his orchestra at the great Milan opera house, La Scala, to play "Giovanezza," the Fascist hymn. To the ears of Benito Mussolini reports have come that Toscanini has defended his refusal as follows: "Never! I refuse to turn La Scala into a market place for Fascist demonstrations. They have the square outside and also the Galleria nearby for that, but while I conduct the Scala orchestra, it will remain the home of opera and never will...
...marvel at Mr. Wilson's command of language, including slang. He even asked Mr. Wilson once how he came by his facile diction, and the then president of Princeton is said to have explained: "From my father. He had a reverence for words, and he would never allow us to misuse a word. Not only would he point out the misuse, but he would explain its misuse and stress the correct use of the word. And he was always interesting. I do not know a man who could be so absorbingly interesting in the explanation...
...results." It is here that many part from his opinion. Mr. Gary assumes that employees have no pecuniary interest in the business in which they are employed, because they have no invested interest. But others maintain that wages and fear of unemployment constitute an interest seen enough to allow workmen voice in management. The obstacles to schemes of Industrial democracy are many. But the blanket condemnation Mr. Gary offers rings as hollow as the Quixotic demands of socialists...