Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet as quickly as possible, teaches his charges not to let opponents wriggle out of their grasp. Once on the mat, a blind wrestler's acute sense of touch often outweighs his opponent's ability to see. Twitching muscles betray the grip an opponent intends, permit a blind wrestler to break it before it is completed. Broken arms and ribs among blind wrestlers are no more common than among their non-blind confreres. Curious foibles are no less rare. In last week's match, Overbrook's opponent, the New York Institute for the Education...
...Dick with an idyllic all night frolic thrown in between, marries the two through the martyrdom of Miss Faye, and winds up with a wedding breakfast in a wheel-less dining car. The thing is rollicking enough, but falls a little short of what the material would seem to permit...
...lecture delivered at Columbia University in 1930. Other quotations from that lecture: "I agree that the importance in the Supreme Court of avoiding the risk of having judges who are unable properly to do their work and yet insist on remaining on the bench, is too great to permit chances to be taken...
...overwhelming, real majorities convinced that they are following a Leader who is pure, wholesome and efficacious. In Professor Masaryk's opinion the Industrial Revolution is being followed by an international Political Revolution of a kind "not only made possible but made inevitable" by Machine Age appliances which permit One Man to make friends with all or nearly all his countrymen. The worldwide result, as yet not fully achieved, seems likely to be not Democracy or Dictatorship but both in one-a mystery potent enough to recall the Trinity, since devout Communists and devout Fascists alike today show...
...State, twisting and turning in its 2,000 miles of migration, arrived more than a year ago in Chinese regions sufficiently remote to permit many of these Chinese Communists, mostly farmers, to take some welcome respite and more or less settle down in three large blotches with a total area today of perhaps 80,000 sq. mi. Last week this Red State was spectacularly absorbing many soldiers once commanded by Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, recently kidnapper of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.) and war lord of Manchuria until the Japanese drove him out (TIME, Sept...