Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently, if the Houses and bridges are to be lighted, the floodlights must be erected on the parkway, under the supervision of the MDC. But on this matter, the officials seem to be glad to co-operate with the College. The result: a permit to put up the floodlights...
...German firm, persuaded Dr. Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit the vast Hindenburg to fit the Lakehurst hangar, Dr. Eckener removed two ribs, thus shortened her seven feet. Even so, she is 803 ft. long, 135 ft. high, holds some 7,000,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen, has nearly twice the bulk of the old Graf Zeppelin...
...atone for his abrupt leavetaking, Toscanini issued one of his rare press statements, expressed gratitude and affection for his audiences and his orchestra. But he would permit no public demonstration when he sailed for home, probably never to return to the U. S. again. Aboard the S. S. Champlain he locked himself in his cabin with Mrs. Toscanini, admitted a few friends, barred all reporters, all photographers...
...Russian transfusers do not depend entirely upon live blood donors. They have found a way to utilize the blood of corpses (TIME, July 23, 1934). To extend that practice and permit research in other directions, Health Commissar Kaminsky last week allotted $1,900,000 to the Institute for Transfusion of Blood as it celebrated its tenth anniversary...
...those who have a story to tell will survive." In 1933 he left Germany, is now, in company with every first-rate German writer, in exile. With his wife and two sons Arnold Zweig lives at Haifa, in Palestine, works as laboriously as his one remaining good eye will permit, to tell the truth about the education he has survived...