Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, there exist facilities and talents which make Harvard as a whole very strong in the field of applied mathematics," Brooks asserted. He predicted that the committee will permit the mathematically talented student to take the fullest advantage of what is available here...
...Snyder and Sherman Adams decided, for the time, to describe the President's illness to the country as a chill. Their reasons: 1) to permit the doctors to recheck and confirm their diagnosis; 2) to avoid alarming the country and the world in the absence of confirmed findings. White House Staff Secretary Andrew Goodpaster called Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, who was in Paris laying the groundwork for the President's scheduled visit to the NATO Council meeting Dec. 16, to ask him to come back to Washington. When word of the President's illness reached...
WASHINGTON POST AND TIMES HERALD: THE President could safely and advantageously ask Mr. Nixon to serve as acting President during the period while he is incapacitated. It would permit the business of the Government to move forward expeditiously and avoid the confusion and stagnation that has occurred during some presidential illnesses of the past. Once it were demonstrated that authority could be shifted to the Vice President on an acting basis and returned to the President without a hitch, future vice presidential candidates would then likely be chosen for their compatibility with the presidential candidate and not merely to lend...
France will set off its first atom bomb next year, the Paris business magazine Entreprise reported last week. Crowed Entre prise: "This will permit us to enter the 'atomic club' before membership is closed. Great Britain must resign itself to no longer being the sole nuclear partner of the U.S." From France's Defense Ministry came proud confirmation that work on the French bomb "is quite far along and we may expect tests in the near future...
...Above 63,000 ft. (where the blood boils), the air is as bad as a vacuum for any pilot who bails out into it. Last week the Air Force showed off a "full pressure suit" that is an advance over its predecessors. But it would not by any means permit its wearer to take a stroll on the moon...