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Word: permit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States yesterday agreed, after months of deliberation, to permit 11 Russian student editors to pay a visit to American colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven Red Editors To Tour Campuses | 3/11/1955 | See Source »

...chairman of the Ways & Means Committee and longtime advocate of reciprocal trade, briefly explained the bill, emphasized its moderation, promised that "there will be no drastic tariff reducing." Cooper asked for the "usual and customary" closed rule, i.e., one that would bar amendments on the House floor but would permit a motion to send the bill back to committee for rewriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Close Shave | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

More than half of all freshman canvassed in a recent Union Committee poll said that normal conditions in their rooms do not permit effective study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Find Study Facilities Inadequate | 2/23/1955 | See Source »

...newspapermen will join three University members of the committee in selecting journalists to receive the 18th annual Nieman Fellowships next year. Each year approximately 12 journalists receive the fellowships, which permit them to study courses of their choice at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Names Fellowship Board | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...with the late John Wigmore, dean of the Northwestern University Law School, who criticized and derided what he called "the sporting theory of law." Scoffed Wigmore: "To require the disclosure to an adversary of the evidence that is to be produced would be repugnant to all sportsmanlike instincts. Rather permit you to preserve the secret of your tactics, to lock up your documents in the vault, to send your witness to board in some obscure village, and then, reserving your evidential resources until the final moment, to marshal them at the trial before your surprised and dismayed antagonist, and thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: COURT SYSTEM REFORM A PRESSING PROBLEM | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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