Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scientific apparatus will be taken which will permit a detailed study of the respiration, circulation, metabolism, acid-base balance, water balance, heat regulation, cardiac performance, exertion, blood gas transport, and subjective responses in rest and in work of varying intensity. Continuous observations will be made, but especially detailed programmes will be carried out at sea level, 5,000 feet, 11.000 feet, 14,500 feet, 17,600 feet, 19600 feet and the same stations coming down. As much as possible will be done at attitude greater 20,000 feet...
From 9.00 until 2.00 o'clock there will be dancing in the Common Room, while an amplifier system will permit overflow into the dining, hall, where a midnight supper will be served...
...issue is not whether we are to erect temporal barriers, which aggressive nations have continually disregarded, in the way of war, but whether we truly desire war. In the case of Japan it is hard to visualize any peaceful release for her excessive population unless the other Pacific powers permit immigration. The comfortable American bourgeois regards preparations for a clash with righteous alarm, but it is his determination to maintain his standard of living against intruding economic elements which will precipitate a struggle...
While heavy fog could not be completely cleared away by this method, tunnels through the fog large enough to permit traffic could be "drilled...
...PERMIT ME VOYAGE-James Agee-Yale University Press ($2). Latest volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets...