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Word: permitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of the innovation is to permit students to familiarize themselves with works of art and to give them the opportunity to form their own judgments on the pieces in question. It should encourage the development of appreciation of art, for a student is more likely to take advantage of the opportunity to procure pictures to hang on his wall than to make regular excursions to Fogg. A better sense of value for pictures will also come from seeing them in one's own room in surroundings of comparative comfort rather than in the more severe background of a museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICTURE AHEAD | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...owns the keys to the room in which the relic was installed. Besides, as the efficiency of such an appliance can in no way compare with that of the creations of today the utter uselessness of owning merely a bath tub of the time of the Revolution will not permit the thrifty American owner to renounce the historic value of his possession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TALE OF A TUB | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

Identifying planes on. the fly is far more difficult than identifying automobiles. Every plane has on the under side of a wing and on its rudder a letter and number. Those are the Department of Commerce's permit symbols. The Department has issued more than a hundred permits. Rarely, except with field glasses, are the symbols discernible from the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Communications, Inc., and the Western Union Telegraph Co. is the White Act, Federal law forbidding the merger of wire and radio companies. It is believed, however, that Radio and Western Union will soon conclude an operating agreement. Later an effort will be made to amend the White Act to permit a merger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Committee on Degrees in History and Literature which sets the written divisional examination in Junior year do not, the CRIMSON believes, reproach the validity of the main objection. This was, briefly, that to set an examination which shall serve solely as a voucher of understanding sufficient to permit intensive specialization makes the examination only something to be got out of the way as easily as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "... NOT IN KIND, BUT IN DEGREE" | 2/8/1929 | See Source »

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