Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...materials until title has been transferred abroad. But the Senate left a large credit loophole in its ban of the purchase or sale of belligerent securities by U. S. citizens. It provided that this ban did not apply to "renewal or adjustment'' of existing debts -which would permit further vast credit extensions...
Quite obviously, U.S. business is all set for a war boom. Dangerous as such a boom may be, it is unavoidable. American public opinion would not permit any embargoes to be placed on our foreign trade, not only because it is profitable, but also because it is almost entirely with the Allies, with whom our sympathies lie. As a Washington wiseacre commented, "For once, the dough and the ideals are on the same side." They certainly seem to make an unbeatable combination. We can only pray that the Neutrality Bill, which seems soon to be passed, will keep the resulting...
...jeweler of France. Craftsmanship in jewelry meant working for a small circle of elegant ladies and learned amateurs. Lalique wanted a larger audience, so he turned to glass, presently managed to reproduce his designs in quantity without lowering their quality. Noteworthy were the four-part molds he devised to permit deeper reliefs, the color effects he achieved by varying the size and shape of one-tone glass. Soon he was designing everything from glass crucifixes to glass radiator caps. "Lalique" became a word for glass at its French best...
With his mania for perfection in fundamentals, his devoted scouting corps (mostly former pupils who would still die for dear old Neyland) and the Southeastern Conference rules that permit subsidized players, The Major has been able to mobilize an increasingly formidable squad each year. This year's is probably his best...
...Point", often was sent into an uncontrollable rage. It was well known that he had vowed to get retribution the next time the "slanderer," as he put it, was in the vicinity. When interviewed recently he admitted that he had never read "Wickford Point." "Grandfather wouldn't permit it in the house," he snorted...