Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czech mass murderers," bombarded the rest of the world with atrocity stories, invented a radio language in which the Czech army was "the Hussite mob" or the "Red Horde," the Czech Republic a soviet, Czech mobilization "Moscow's war mongering," Premier Syrovy a "Communist." Not only does radio permit nation to shout at nation, but radio can also shout a neighbor down. Germany reported a mystery station which blanketed the European air with static during Chancellor Hitler's Nürnberg speech. Similar reports charged German stations with sending out code signals on the Prague wave length...
...Hitler's time-worn protestations to England's belatedly firm stand. Britain's unequivocal warning that she will fight if Hitler marches may shunt the Sudeten crises back to the channels of discussion and conciliation. If so, it may prove to be the first effective caveat to Fascism and permit us to hope that the victory of democracy is really coming...
...Hitler, who appropriates the democratic idea of self-determination to strengthen a totalitarian regime, really wanted peace he would not insist that so complex a problem as the transfer of Sudetenland be settled in so short a time. He would readily permit calm negotiations to bridge the gap between his "final" memorandum and Benes' "promise...
...lustier power plants. Last week Vega Airplane Co., a Lockheed subsidiary, announced specifications for a plane with two motors in one unit, geared with overrunning clutches to a single propeller. Overrunning clutches, similar in effect to a bicycle coaster brake or to the overdrive principle in some modern automobiles, permit a failing motor automatically to disengage itself, saving the still-functioning motor the strain of working against the inertia and compression of the dead...
Arrested for imitating trumpet-voiced Songstress Martha Raye at Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach Baths, where she had a permit to act but not to sing, little Audrey Golub. 9, pleaded that she just "couldn't resist it" when she heard the applause...