Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also space in the rear half for the files, shelves and other paraphernalia necessary for the operation of the delivery system. Such a remodeling would have many beneficial results: a larger delivery desk would speed up operations during rush hours; moving the delivery desk nearer the stacks would permit an additional increase in speed; students would have a great deal more space to sit down, which would decrease the confusion now prevalent in active periods; and finally, the center of activity would be moved away from the reference desks, thereby aiding those intent on consulting the various assistants...
Dean Landis continued, stating reasons for the shift in prestige, "The tendencies of the courts has never been toward specialization. Types of problems which come before them are much too varied to permit complete study...
Some said he elevated one of the toughest towns in North America "to a state of almost pristine virtue" by chasing out its crooks, grafters, gamblers, racketeers. But during his second term, in 1932, he and his police chief were convicted of conspiring to permit the operation of bawdy houses. Democratic Governor William Comstock pardoned him after he had served eight months and eleven days of a 3½-to-5-year sentence, saying he was "more sinned against than sinning." He barely missed re-election while under sentence, and again while in jail in 1934. He came back strong...
First act of the National Unity group was to introduce a bill which, when passed, will permit the President to do away with Parliament, rule by Cabinet decrees. Thus the last trace of Czechoslovak democracy will be wiped out and the nation will become a semi-dictatorial State...
...manifest two years ago when the snub-nosed, sloe-eyed little monarch requested a franc from a cameraman for chocolate before he would pose at his private school in Switzerland. The photographer demurred: "Chocolate might give Your Majesty a stomach ache." To which King Ananda majestically replied: "I never permit myself to become stomach-ached." The cameraman paid...