Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since last July the opticians, directed by tall, spindly Dr. John A. Anderson, have been making the final tests. They proved that the great mirror will allow the pinpoint image of a star to diffuse into a spot whose diameter is equivalent to less than .07 seconds of arc. Such accuracy is better than necessary, since the normal turbulence of the atmosphere causes seven times as much distortion...
Also difficult to get around was the Anglican unwillingness to allow laymen to administer Holy Communion. The compromise: only presbyters may administer Communion, but others, appointed by the church, may assist in its administration...
...reading a statement to the committee. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas shouted an angry refusal. Thereupon, like Brother Gerhart, Eisler handed out typewritten copies of his statement to newsmen: "This hearing is both sinister and ridiculous. ... I would be delighted to spend as much time as this committee will allow to lecture on ... the art of the fugue. But . . . this committee has called me only in order to . . . smear...
...planes, were able for the first time to meet this cut by shifting their displaced DC-4s to air freight. (American alone was transferring six DC-4s.) The independents' best hope was that CAB would disallow the new rates, but it was hardly likely that it would not allow some cuts. The future looked dark for the independents...
...once the picture was finished, Government authorities were horrified. They were still more horrified when Signor Tamburella warned them of the publicity stench he could raise out of their refusal to allow the film's release. The authorities gave...