Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the string-pullers went to work. Just a few hours before Michael was scheduled to face a firing squad, the Greek cabinet passed a special order in council which, for the first time, would allow a case of this kind to be brought before a court of pardons. When the government ordered the army to postpone Michael's execution, the military governor of Athens resigned his post in protest. Almost overnight the news reached the northern fron tier. Through the thin cold air of the mountains the loudspeakers of General Markos jeered triumphantly at the government troops...
...making House of Delegates turned down a proposal for a nonprofit national health insurance company. The plan was recommended by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions, headed by Dr. Paul Ramsey Hawley. The idea was to issue policies covering hospital and medical bills on a nationwide scale, which would allow big businesses to sign one contract covering all employees, no matter where they work. The plan would give more people better medical care, and thus probably lessen agitation for compulsory insurance. But A.M.A. said no: the whole thing looked like socialism, it called for too much centralization and too much...
...owls and hawk are probably here for the winter, according to Ludlow Griscom, Research Curator of Zoology. He thinks they decided to stay because of the protection they receive in the city. Games laws allow the big birds to hunt in peace, while the easy food supply also keeps them around...
...present Widner Library is designed mainly for graduate students and men doing research work and the system does not allow ordinary under graduates to browse freely in the stacks...
Five committees, set up by the Army, are now working on a plan which would allow students taking courses in agriculture, biology, engineering, physical and social sciences and the humanities to continue their work...