Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safeguard. But the West had learned to give Soviet offers a wary welcome. After months of hard negotiations, a government for Western Germany was nearly a reality. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made it clear that the U.S. would not allow the Russians to talk Western Germany to death by delays; nor would it permit any German government to be hamstrung by re-establishment of a Russian veto. "The people of Western Germany may rest assured," said Acheson, "that this Government will agree to no general solution for Germany into which the basic safeguards and benefits of the existing Western...
Last Tuesday's Faculty decision to allow qualified Juniors to study abroad is a welcome one. Although limited to men in the field of Romance and Germanic Languages and Literatures and to Comparative Philology concentrators specializing in Romance or Germanic languages, it represents the first post-war step toward solving the complex question of allowing credit toward a Harvard degree for work done outside of the College...
...Cornell and Army will be tops in the East," stated Valpey, and he gave three reasons for his choice: 1) both teams have large numbers of returning lettermen; 2) their schedules allow for three "breather" games, contests in which the coaches may regroup and experiment; and 3) Cornell has tremendous team speed and Army has depth and considerable speed...
...effort to modernize the basis for minimum support prices, the Brannan plan includes a new and highly-complicated formula. The present support price is a flat 90 percent of parity, parity taken as the 1909-1914 period. A new plan, scheduled to go into effect in 1950, will allow prices to vary between 60 and 90 percent of parity. The Brannan plan, however, will base support prices for each year on the average of the ten previous years...
...bloodshed and death are palpable and unfeigned. It is the only art in which the artist deals actual death and risks actual death, as if a poet were called upon to scan his lines with his life . . . All arts, even the most abstract, are essentially creations to thrill. To allow man to participate in God's designs at one step removed from the anguish of living them...