Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Brinton is thoroughly consonant with the tendency of our age to view all men sympathetically. Modern historians cease to expect a great deal from human nature; they permit much greater play to the elements of Caesar and Croesus in mankind. Since men are what they are and not what they aspire to be, such an historical methodology is doubtless more scientific...
...exaggerating when they tell how he once stayed on his bridge for six weeks during fleet maneuvers, relaxing only to take short catnaps. When he takes over his new office he will be no stranger to Washington. He maintains a residence there, has gone there whenever his duties would permit. In Washington he is not active socially but he likes to go for drink and chit-chat to the swank Army & Navy Club or Chevy Chase Country Club. Like Admiral Standley and many another naval officer he has a son, Lieut. William Harrington Leahy, in the ranks below...
Last week Nanking was roaring at the latest exploit of Chinese Foreign Minister Chang Chun in "kidding" the Imperial Japanese Government. Tokyo had demanded that Japanese troops be permitted to join the anti-Communist forces of Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in any Chinese province into which these may be sent (TIME, Nov. 9). To this demand China's Chang replied that, while it would be premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry...
...full speed, the bridge would only quiver, the ship would be telescoped. The world's greatest and most costly over-water roadway has two decks, no pedestrian walks. The bottom deck for trucks and trains will not be completed until 1938. Top deck has six lanes, will permit 10,000,000 cars to cross annually. Experts predict that tolls will amortize the bridge's cost in 20 years. Drivers may hit 45 m.p.h. on the span. For those who go faster there is a tabloid jail in one of the towers. Before nightfall on the first...
...past time the custom prevailed for examinations to be filed by the college, in order to permit reference to the papers in cases of doubt in awarding degrees, and to insure against mistakes in grading. Recently this practice has become something of a dead letter, as there is no longer a central agency to supervise storing the books, and only in the rarest instances are students awake to the possibility of protesting their grade and demanding a check, especially when the summer exodus has taken place. Thus the tradition of not returning blue books has become a smoke-screen behind...