Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roulette addicts, if not simply schemes for pyramiding bets, are mostly based on supposed frequency patterns in which numbers or groups of numbers turn up. The casino managements, serenely confident that the best system ever devised will not prevent the house from getting its inexorable percentage, not only permit their clients to play systems but to take notes on the winning numbers, notes on which the systems depend. This week the Casino at Monte Carlo is even placing at the disposal of its sleek patrons a number of machines, designed by Prince Johannes zu Loewenstein, which will make such note...
...President has asked me to tell the people of Austria that he has yielded only to force!" continued Dr. Schuschnigg. "Because we are unwilling, even in this terrible situation, to permit at any price the shedding of streams of German blood,* we have ordered Austria's armed forces to withdraw without resistance, in the event that an invasion is carried out. . . . And so I take leave of the Austrian people with a German word of farewell which I utter from the depths of my heart: Gott schuetze Oesterreich [GOD PROTECT AUSTRIA...
Harvard sends 12 delegates representing the Netherlands and Australia to join the 400 sent by 35 other colleges to this 12th assembly of the League. Original plans will be changed by resolutions at the opening congress to permit the group to discuss aspects of the European scene which have appeared in the past week. Whether to seat the Austrian and Spanish Rebel delegations are problems of procedure which confront the assembly today...
...movements of the earth, the moon, the tides. More recently there has been talk of certain other "constants" which varied widely enough to be clearly detected, and also of the possibility that all the constants may vary in amounts too small or over a time too long to permit detection. By last week the talk of inconstant constants had reached such a pitch that to the ears of interested laymen it was an uproar...
...York, the State Board of Regents last week appreciated the opinion of censors that it would be unfair to Actress Garbo to permit a caricatured re-issue of her 1927 silent film, Street of Sorrow, with score, dialogue and a substitute title. The objectionable title: I Vant To Be Alone...