Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India where the king cobra, largest and most poisonous of snakes, takes a toll of thousands of lives a year, no progress has been made because the snake to held to be sacred. Since snakes die after a certain amount of venom has been extracted, the natives will not permit the development of any such protective measures, according to Dr. do Amaral. He added, "The natives of India would rather die than have a colbra die. The number of times their preference is fulfilled is amazing...
...airplane, heavy laden, arrived at Kandahar from Kabul via Peshawar, British India; and out slumped Big Brother Inayatullah. For him were flown no royal standards. Therefore the double abdication of last week appeared as nothing more than a successful double cross to outwit Bandit Bacha Sakao, and permit King Amanullah to stage a coup d' escape...
Harvard has suffered in the past from the unwelcome publicity of inaccurate facts and of accuracy colored to disadvantage. The blame is traceable directly to the laxity which prefers to permit valuable information to leak out comfortably to be mishandled in the press rather than direct its course officially. The University owes it to itself and to its constituents to assume a firm guidance of publicity and insure the official publication in full of Harvard news when it is news...
Such a relocation of the Memorial Church will render unnecessary the destruction of Appleton Chapel, which apparently would, to some, have been the cause of unhappiness, and will therefore permit of services without interruption until the new Church is ready, and perhaps, most happily of all, will stop the attempt to solve what is probably impossible, namely, to erect on the site of Appleton a suitable and beautiful Memorial Church that will architecturally harmonize with the several surrounding conflicting types of architecture and at the same time not be dwarfed by the tremendous mass of Widener...
...that at Harvard any division under one Faculty could be organized into units as self-sufficient as this. No one familiar with the University would hold such a belief. The existence of the other parts of the University, each under its own Faculty, exercises too powerful an influence to permit such a system...