Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity crews may forsake the warmth of the indoor tank this afternoon and brave the chilly waters of the Charles if Charlie Whiteside considers that the ice has broken sufficiently to permit the coxes to navigate around the floes...
...country inhabited by good people. Their religion is Old Testamental and their customs are in many respects medieval. But they are a happy people. The common man earns enough in three days to live without doing anything the rest of the week. Twenty-five days' work suffices to permit him to live two months in leisure and meditation...
...first round, Fuller landed short vicious lefts to Ambers' head. The second round was even. For the next twelve, Ambers drove his opponent around the ring, punching him as often as stamina would permit. In the 15th, with the decision safely won, the same bravado that caused him to sign for the fight in the first place made Ambers open up in an effort to effect a knockout. It nearly cost him the fight when Fuller's right landed on the point of his jaw and a hard left opened a cut on his eye. When the bell...
Recently, he said that he didn't believe in "all these Hitlers and Mussolinis. They don't belong in our American life. And Roosevelt is a bigger dictator than any of them." What's more, if he were President, he wouldn't permit Congress to delegate its authority to him. (Perhaps he let them do it at Baton Rouge just so he'd know how to resist when he became President...
...cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro New York News: "Colored America demands that civilization does not permit Italy to precipitate a world race war by invading Abyssinia. . . . Let civilization beware." To acting General Secretary A. W. Berry of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights occurred the idea of an organized world struggle by Negroes against Italy's white blackshirts. "The African masses look to the Negro...