Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rank & file began to rise. Sentner's own Local 1102 began to turn against him, and his right to hold his district office was challenged in the courts. After the Taft-Hartley law was passed, he was asked if he intended to resign and allow the union to comply with the law. "That decision," he replied, "is up to the membership of this union." Last week, Local 1102 made its decision. By a vote of 950-2, Bill Sentner-still hanging on to his district and international offices -was expelled for life from the local he organized...
That the essays would be better than those composed under the exam stress is certainly true, but every student would have the same chance at improvement. And let no one fear that such essays would allow anyone to escape without doing the reading: a good paper would require as much work as does a good examination. The student's thinking processes would certainly be stimulated more often during a term than most men's are under the examination system. And the more frequent the thought, the less superficial his knowledge of the course...
Such simplicity allows zoologists to do experiments with animals almost as if they were chemical compounds. Professor Tinbergen tells how he bothered a herring gull horribly by putting a red wooden egg in her nest. The shape and size of the egg were correct; they tended to release the gull's incubating reaction. But the red color touched off an attack reaction. The poor confused mother fought an exhausting battle between conflicting drives, until the "sitting drive" dominated long enough to allow her to sit down. She could feel the egg's tender shape beneath her, but could...
...what a time was had by all! . . . The steaks were good! In fact they were so good that some of the guests sat through a double feature . . . This is the way it is done, kids. Eat your steak as quickly as possible . . . get rid of the dirty dishes somehow, allow your face to relax into a half-starved, neglected expression . . . and sit back and wait...
...A.M.A. insists that all medical prepayment plans should be controlled by medical men (i.e., medical associations), to preserve the traditional patient-doctor relationship (including, say critics, the right of well-established physicians to charge as much as their consciences allow...