Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large group of those answering the questionnaire, besides desiring to abolish elementary rules, asked for a further liberalization to permit a free choice of a reading knowledge in any two languages as the means of satisfying the regulations. Most rated modern languages as more important than Latin and Greek, and quite a few were indignant at the present position assigned to Spanish and Italian...
...this country, long distances prevent a pursuit of the first custom mentioned; tradition does not support, and practical politics does not permit, the election of students to Congress. The use of petition remains. And if Hearst-harried haters of internationalism may deluge the Senate with anti-World Court telegrams with such decisive effect, I submit to the learned editors of the CRIMSON that, under current circumstances, it is most poignantly the "province of students to involve themselves in governmental affairs...
...automobile manufacturers] had their ear close to the ground, they would find that there are still some millions of Americans left who would like to own an automobile designed with sufficient road clearance to permit them to travel occasionally on country roads away from the maddening rush and with sufficient head room to permit a man six feet tall to sit upright and see something of the country through which he is traveling, instead of . . . being obliged to double up over the steering wheel like a half-closed jackknife in order even to see traffle signals...
...days later "Bill" Green & friends trooped into the White House for a heart-to-heart. "Permit me to say," announced President Roosevelt when it was over, "that we are seeking to promote peace, co-operation and understanding...
...year against Navy. Six thousand tickets, priced at 75? each and allotted to undergraduates and alumni, were sold on issue. A few were resold for as much as $20 each. In the Naval Academy's McDonough Hall the crowd sat in nervous silence, because intercollegiate rules do not permit cheering when bouts are in progress. Once, when spectators broke the rule, the referee stopped the bout...