Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bogey of a third term. . . . Obviously, the President cannot in advance decline a renomination that may never be offered him. Just as obviously, with the world in such a turmoil as it is today outside of this continent, it cannot be forecast whether the American people would permit him to lay down his burden in view of possible eventualities...
...occurred than the President's suggestion last year that all Justices over 70 had outlived their usefulness. The suggestion made Louis Brandeis angry enough to give his approval, along with Conservative Willis Van Devanter, when the Chief Justice condemned the plan as roundly as judicial decorum would permit in a statement to the effect that increasing the personnel of the Court would not increase its efficiency...
Although a statement that Harvard gives fourteen different courses in elementary mathematics--all called "Math A"--would be gross exaggeration, nevertheless present lack of uniformity among the sections gives just that impression. Resolving not to permit the slightest hint of regimentation to cast its ominous shadow over their fair course, the men in charge of "Math A" have allowed the fourteen sections to become, in practice, almost wholly independent of one another. Not only teaching methods, but organization of material, examinations, and grading standards vary from section to section, and as a result men undertaking "Math A" can never...
...sterilization is an old issue. Forty years ago the head of the State School for Insane Youth was accused of sterilizing his charges, never denied doing so. In 1917, Kansas legalized sterilization. Since then 1,750 sterilizations have put the State third highest on the list of 29 which permit such treatment...
...half-dozen European universities and the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn, where Dr. Edward Calvin Kendall, isolator of thyroid hormone and analyzer of adrenal cortex hormone, provided him with a big stock of adrenals fresh from South St. Paul stockyards. He still was not able to get enough to permit all the experiments he wanted to do on the acid's medical effects, and in despair Dr. Szent-Györgyi went back to his native Hungary where one day, instead of eating a dish which Mrs. Szent-Györgyi had heavily spiced with paprika, he made...