Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embassy of the American New Dealers," as being disrespectful though it would be as accurate, but in the case of Spain it is more serious to use such flippancy about a government for which many are dying in its defense. It is bad enough that the world democracies permit Dictators Mussolini and Hitler to attack a defenseless Republican and liberal government-but for a great publication such as TIME to stoop to sly innuendos is inexcusable...
Axillary (underarm) temperature readings are taken when the patient is too ill or restless to permit rectal or oral readings. Dr. Holbrook seems to have witnessed a record performance...
...President, I do not feel that this body, out of fairness to itself, can permit the passage of this important piece of legislation without some consideration. . . . Personally, I should like to have an opportunity to take this bill home tonight and study it. . . . Probably there is not one chance in a hundred that I will have any objection to the bill tomorrow but . . . unless there is a willingness . . . to permit it to go over . . . I feel it will be necessary for me to talk for a considerable length of time upon other subjects...
Boiling up menacingly was the year-old feud between one of the Commission's three Republican members, New York's George Henry Payne, and Cincinnati Radioman Powel Crosley Jr. over the 500,000-watt experimental permit granted three and a half years ago by the Commission to Crosley-operated WLW. Last year Commissioner Payne, although he is technically assigned to the Commissioner's telegraph division, wrote Mr. Crosley asking whether WLW was not taking advantage of its "experimental" status as the most powerful broadcaster in the U. S. to reap unusual commercial profits, and demanding a balance...
...could not be collected because of New York's statute of limitations. The bank won in the lower court, lost last week in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Ruled Judge Thomas W. Swan: a statute of limitations cannot be invoked against the U. S. Government; to permit it against a sovereign foreign government would be to deny its sovereignty; therefore Russia's claim was adjudicable; therefore that claim can now be prosecuted...