Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proud conclusion: "It will not allow that a foreign step crosses over the pyramids of our frontier, beyond of which there is but Albanian territory...
...Communist paper print an article entitled "Allow Us to Err"? A newspaper in the Ukraine, where the new Soviet purge is at its peak, dared to do so last week. "Absurd," thundered Pravda. "This theory of the right to err really means . . . the right to be free from criticism. . . . Workers' officials who are unable to review their work critically are unable to go forward and are cowards and provincials...
...like the proximity fuses in antiaircraft shells, it would detect the approach of the moon's surface and fire "braking rockets" at the proper distance. Shooting their power forward, they would counteract the moon's gravitational pull (one-sixth as strong as the earth's), and allow the whole apparatus to make a sufficiently gentle landing...
Penicillin was still winning more battles than it lost. Despite setbacks because of clumsy handling of the drug (e.g., use of ineffective strains and weak doses which allow resistant bacteria to develop-TIME, July 15), doctors last week had some notable victories to report...
...forces now operating in American college education compel the repeal of the rule immediately. For at least two years Harvard will be over-crowded. The only foreseeable way to increase appreciably the number of available vacant rooms is for the University to allow all students who so desire to provide their own lodging while at College...