Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Permit us to refer to p. 36 of your issue of Nov. 23 from which the following quotation is taken...
...last week wound up in a series of controversies, prizes and suggestions. Main developments: Rose Bowl representative for the Pacific Coast Conference, chosen last fortnight, is the University of Washington (TIME, Dec. 7). Rules of the contest, to be held on New Year's Day at Pasadena, permit the Pacific Coast representative to invite any team it wants as its opponent...
...culturally, nationally or commercially, than those she has within the South American continent. The nations to the south have been formed by nature as our neighbors and the bonds between ourselves and these several states were recognized many years ago by Monroe and others as being too close to permit either foreign aggression or internal strivings to go on without resulting danger to ourself. Though at that time, a sound policy, the far-famed Monroe doctrine since has lapsed into a form of economic imperialism which has aroused bitterness and suspicion within the nations involved. This antipathy...
...Mohawk Valleys, it found itself in command of the low-level land passage through the Atlantic-Coastal ranges, became an important rail centre. Nevertheless, Albany still looked longingly down the Hudson. Valley toward the sea. After a generation of civic agitation, in 1925 Congress authorized dredging the Hudson to permit ocean-going vessels to reach Albany. In the next seven years the War Department spent $6,000,000 scooping out a 27-ft. channel. Albany spent $7,000,000 building a modern waterfront. In 1932, with great ceremony, the Port of Albany was opened to the world...
...Harkness had spent $20.000. She hoped to sell it to a U. S. zoo for $15,000. But just as she was about to take it aboard the U. S.-bound Empress of Russia, Chinese customs officials seized it on the grounds that she had obtained no export permit. In near-hysteria Mrs. Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle while the Empress of Russia sailed without her. After friends had helped her post a large cash bond, customs officials permitted Mrs. Harkness to take the baby giant to her hotel...