Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiritual and temporal leader of the Greek Cypriots renewed his plea for national self-determination. He decried the repeated refusal of the United Kingdom to permit a plebescite in Cyprus, and called on the United States to supply "moral leadership" in finding a solution to the dispute...
Even this plan has a limited advantage. The speaker arrives, talks with a few students or tutors for a while, and leaves. If the terms of the grant could be changed to permit some permanent, and perhaps concrete, contributions to be made to House intellectual atmosphere, the grant might serve a better purpose than at present. If conference rooms were to be built in the basements, for example, more tutorial groups might meet in the House, along with informal discussion groups, in which instructors in or outside the House met with interested students...
...last week's riots in Warsaw testified (see FOREIGN NEWS), troubled, spirited Poland continues to writhe under the heel of Communist rule. But the heel has been lifted enough, since Wladyslaw Gomulka came to power a year ago, to permit the restoration to its proper place of Poland's greatest treasure of religion and art. After 18 years' absence, the famed Cracow altar, a huge, polychrome Gothic masterpiece carved out of linden wood in the 15th century, is back in its place in the red brick Church of Our Lady...
...wait until she was older. Last week, in New York Magistrate's court, contrite Dr. Porcello ("I am glad that I did not hit a window; the hand of God prevented that") received a suspended sentence. He also learned a lesson in church law: the church may permit priests to marry minors despite their parents' objections if these objections are considered "gravely unreasonable...
...established clubs there would be no chartering problem. A group would simply amend its constitution to permit Annex members on an equal footing. The organizations would still come under the responsibility of the University's Faculty Committee on Extracurricular Activities for problems requiring administrative attention. In the rare cases in which a problem specifically involved Radcliffe members, the Annex Dean of Student Affairs could be asked to confer with the Harvard supervisors on an informal basis...