Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro had actually been a member of the grand jury which swiftly reindicted Patterson. However, it was one thing to allow a Negro to participate briefly in such a routine ceremony, and quite another to permit one to serve in the body that actually decided Patterson's fate. Every Negro in Alabama knew this. Therefore, the twelve black veniremen in Decatur last week were thoroughly uncomfortable. Judge Callahan was in no mood to put them at their ease. He had a few chairs placed outside the jury box for the Negroes to sit on. When one stage-struck blackamoor...
...Majesty's quiet strength of character and experience in getting his way by imperceptible means. He figured largely in setting up the ingenious contraption known as Great Britain's "National Government." His will was instrumental in having the general election held just in time to permit His Majesty to die happy in the knowledge that British Tories are safely in for five more years. Last week in this favorable environment the new King was exceedingly...
...planning the translation of Father Damien, the clergy were meticulously careful not to permit any ceremonies which might seem to suggest that he was already saintly. In all canonization causes the Roman Congregation of Rites vigilantly investigates all aspects of the candidate's life. In the case of Father Damien, the Congregation has doubtless already been obliged to consider old stories which gained fresh currency upon the death nearly five years ago of Father Damien's zealous, self-sacrificing successor, Brother Joseph Dutton (TIME, April 6, 1931). Brother Joseph died at 87, untouched by leprosy. Why, some wondered...
...amazed that you would permit such filth as that which appears under the caption "Ethiopian Icon" on p. 15 of the Jan. 6 issue of TIME. It would seem that an editor should feel under some obligation to observe the ordinary standards of decency in selecting material to be presented to his readers. Since your magazine apparently does not consider the moral welfare of its readers, we are compelled in the interests of more than 20,000 high school students in our city to remove the above mentioned number from our high school libraries...
Although Mr. Vernon Munroe has put his finger on most of the obvious faults of your program for the Tutorial System, permit me to add my protest against your sadistic inclination to more and more discipline...