Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...section. The Times is also stiffly proud of its reputation for impeccable typography. Last week its readers discovered which reputation the Times prizes more highly. On Page 1 of the Times's Sunday Book Review section appeared a typographical botch which any country editor would be ashamed to permit in his paper-a line which showed only as a faint, undecipherable blur. The type had obviously been scraped off. Readers' puzzlement grew to shock when, on Page 14 of the same section, they found a two-column, five-inch-high, grey smudge, beneath which was the following caption...
...Harvard students are in the position of Adam and Eve when the bank foreclosed on Eden, because, even if the two-week vacation is rain from heaven, it seems to be given for this year only. But, being accustomed to such a paradise of leisure, Harvard men will not permit it to be taken away again. The University has taken a step in the right direction; its next must be to make a generous Christmas vacation a permanent part of the schedule...
...performed an autopsy, was lately ordered in Municipal Court to pay $1,000 in damages. Declared Chief Examiner Gonzales last week: "If [the verdict] goes through we might as well shut up shop. If medical examiners and coroners are going to be handicapped by the refusal of relatives to permit an autopsy, we'll be in a pretty situation. A brother might poison a sister and prevent us from determining the cause of death by refusing to permit an autopsy...
...life when he heard of Enghien s murder. Second blow came when Caulain-court fell in love with a married woman whose husband had left her, wanted her to get a divorce so he could marry her himself. Afraid of the scandal of his own divorce, Napoleon would not permit another in his court. Thus Caulaincourt, although he never betrayed the Emperor, distrusted him, always observed skeptically the genius who blinded and infatuated most of the soldiers with whom he was in contact...
...matter of fact, the Nazis would not be consistent if they did permit opposition groups to train freely for the coming Olympic Games. We have only to consult Bruno Malitz's book "Sports in the National Socialist Ideology" to find the roots from which springs the atavistic treatment of minorities in the realm of sport. To give Herr Malitz, a sports leader of the Storm Troops the floor...