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Word: permitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Official Harvard it seems is afraid of being compromised by a government subsidy. It feels that such directs aid might be the entering wedge which would permit a future national administration to interfere with its highly prized academic independence. However, the validity of the argument crumbles when the facts of the case are examined. Ninety-eight per cent of all schools eligible for the grant have accepted it and this group contains-some three-hundred private non-sectarian colleges, including Yale, Columbia, and Radcliffe--none of whom have yet shown any grave sign of government corruption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PRIDE GOETH BEFORE..." | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Polish Gdynia. For four years Danzig has been run by a German Nazi Government. For Germany to take Danzig would be, politically, like the Italians taking Albania. The question that made Danzig a birthday box with a bomb in it was: how much more grabbing will the "Peace Front" permit the Axis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday Present? | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Masks-the ancient substitute for make-up-appeared in Greek tragedy almost from the beginning. Their purposes: to express a type, depersonalize the actor, permit the actor to appear in more than one part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Pre-Broadway | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...policy of the coaches has been to spread the coaching as thin as effectiveness will permit. A change in the system would not increase our effectiveness. The report states "Players who never had . . . any instruction will, with one or two afternoons in these expert hands, learn more than they ever believed to exist in these sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...ranks of "minor" into House, we believe that it is both possible and even fairly probable that in the future some of them might be added to the select seven. Soccer appears to have the greatest chance in this regard now, and, should participation, outside interest, and funds permit, the day may well come, perhaps soon, when soccer will be back in the intercollegiates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scanning Council Report | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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