Word: permited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard College has no recreation building, and it has no fraternities. Its deans realize that a serious social problem exists, but they are unwilling to turn to the Houses to solve it. They feel that our society just does not permit women to be entertained in gentlemen's rooms. To let down the bars, they argue, would offend too many people. They feel it is their duty to the community to arrange that women not be seen entering the Houses at night, and that is their duty to the students to teach them the mores of our society. They feel...
...Please permit me to correct a confusion of terms which appeared in TIME, Nov. 3, under the title "A Geiger Counter for Everybody. "The gadget" which is there described is not a Geiger counter but an ionization chamber type of meter. The distinction is ... vital for the proper protection ... of persons who are exposed to radiation...
...Paris office). This worked well until the Italian Government, by importing more from France than it exported, ran out of francs and TIME could no longer clear its Italian lira remittances. At that juncture the Government, expressing its desire to continue having TIME & LIFE in Italy, agreed to permit imports of TIME with payments in lira to be used for maintaining TLI's editorial bureau in Rome. As a result, our present print order of TIME for Italy is determined by the amount of our expense of doing business there...
These international branch office and banking arrangements make TIME an especially easy gift for Christmas giving from one part of the world to another. A Brazilian, for example, without having to bother about an export permit, can enter a gift subscription for a friend in Australia by simply placing his order, accompanied by payment in Brazilian currency, with TIME'S Rio de Janeiro office. Furthermore, because such orders are airmailed to TIME'S branch printing points, gift orders received by December 10 can be fulfilled with TIME'S Christmas issue...
...Canada, unlike the U.S., does not permit the return of the bodies of her war dead...