Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poet, -s, -asters, -icules under Books in the issue of Dec. 26, my curiosity will allow me no peace...
When the radio was invented a short time ago, Harvard rightly viewed it with misgivings and adopted for itself and for undergraduate organizations a stern policy which only now shows signs of decay. Steadfastly the University has refused to allow its varsities of advertise gasoline or its publications to sell out the name of Harvard. And yet, paradoxically enough, the opening wedge of commercialism now comes from the University itself...
...Brussels, the German Ambassador refused to allow an Austrian singer and two German dancers to entertain the Foreign Press Association at its dinner until assurance had been given that Nazi newspapermen would not be humiliated by having to listen to Josef Schmidt, German-Jewish tenor, sing in German. Instead, Tenor Schmidt sang songs in French, Rumanian - and Italian - which made the Italian press attaché hopping...
...seven Juniors on the committee agreeing to allow time for the completion of the German campaign before the beginning their own, plan to begin solicitation before the next semester. They added: "These two programs of international student aid should together implement a new phase of enlightened scholarship...
...writings of Confucius, from one of whose favorite pupils he is said to be directly descended. When barely 19 his academic robe was adorned with "four buttons,"scholarly rewards for "felicity in phrasing."Almost alone among Chinese war lords, he cared little for wealth, was scrupulously honest, did not allow his troops to loot the Chinese countryside over which they maneuvered...