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Word: permit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unpleasant as it seemed, Wright argued, the standard of living must fall to permit increased war output. The economist prefaced his remarks with a statement that it is the special duty of the economist to tell the truth, however unsavory, regardless of public or political opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 900 Business Men Hear Philippines Described as Key to Free Far East | 6/12/1951 | See Source »

Dean Fox explained to the CRIMSON last night that second year students have tended to take too few coordinating and institutional courses and too many general ones. The new rule will permit second year men to enroll in one and a half Perspective courses, as the general courses are called, two and a half institutional courses, and one full coordinating course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Tightens 2nd Year Program: Fewer General Courses | 5/31/1951 | See Source »

...already made big gains in solving the problem.lt has worked out high-alloy mixes which eliminate the use of columbium completely in the J-48. It has also reduced the use of other critical metals to a mere fraction of a pound per engine. Others have developed substitutes which permit existing supplies of the critical metals to be stretched 15 times farther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Mr. Horsepower | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...Labrenz was quoted as saying, ". . . we do not have control of life." How illogical can one be? The child needed a transfusion to live; but Labrenz and his wife refused to permit the transfusion; therefore, the child dies, though they "do not have control" of her life. Instead of each of them having a Bible in hand, one should have been studying an elementary text on logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 21, 1951 | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...Macy) and a political machine (modeled on Manhattan's Tammany Hall). Both function smoothly. During his eight years of office, President Tubman has extended the vote to Liberia's women and the hinterland tribesmen, but he also got Liberia's constitution amended to permit the President to serve an unlimited number of four-year terms. Tubman's True Whig Party, representing the descendants of the 15,000 freed U.S. slaves who first settled the nation, has ruled over Liberia almost without interruption since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Opposition Tenderized | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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