Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no time to be lost: "Protestantism has been too long going to seed in its sectarianism. To allow it . . . even so long a period as a generation in which to become strong enough to hope that it can win America, is to give it a longer lease than either secularism or Roman Catholicism may allow...
...student body as a whole should know that Harvard alone, out of 14 colleges surveyed throughout the country, consents to allow its student legislature to be chosen by appointment. If the elective procedure is capable of providing capable leadership at Cornell, Oberlin, Chicago, Williams and other leading colleges, there is no reason why Harvard need fear smoke-filled rooms and Tammany-style politics. Fraternity blocs, the plague of many student governments elsewhere, could not achieve control on the local scene, where but one-fifth of the electorate belong to social clubs, and where the very nature of the organizations would...
...closing the article, Professor Selekman, in a message to executives, contends that the industrialist must remain steady to allow the country to catch up with the swift changes in industrial relations...
Exchange directors gulped, quickly shifted ground to allow trading in old contracts only at new ceilings. Thus the pinch was put on traders who had sold "short" (i.e., sold grain they didn't own in hopes of buying it at a lower price before the delivery date). They stood to lose an estimated total...
Then the Silver bloc agreed to allow U.S. industry access to the treasure trove -for a price. Industry could buy the metal at 90? an ounce if i) the Treasury bought from producers at 90?, and 2) in two years the price of silver were raised to $1.29. As tribute to the bloc, U.S. silver users would pay an increase of about 81% for a two-year respite from the artificial shortage...