Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tropical jungle conditions without adequate shelter, clothing, food or medical attention . . . building railways and making roads . . . their health is rapidly deteriorating . . . there have been some thousands of deaths. The number of deaths reported by the Japanese to us is just over 100. . . . The refusal of the Japanese Government to permit neutral inspection of camps in the southern area is difficult to understand in view of the fact that they have allowed visits by neutral inspectors ... in the northern area comprising Hong Kong, Formosa, Shanghai, Korea and Japan itself. The British Government are reasonably satisfied that conditions generally in this area...
...fundamentalist offshoot of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Another offshoot: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Difference: Bible Presbyterians ban all liquor; Orthodox Presbyterians permit beer and wine...
...work and strike a proper balance between regular course work and tutorial instruction. These arrangements have naturally been affected by the changes due to wartime acceleration. The tutorial system especially, which was predicated upon four academic years of college residence or a total of eight terms so as to permit a large measure of independent study, was bound to feel the stress and strain of the changes necessary to compress it into six or seven terms. Prior to the war only about 1 or 2 per cent of the degrees were awarded for less than four years of study...
Afrikaners Gideon Blignaut, 24 and Antonie Botha, 22, were at work in Johannesburg's Pass Office. When Robert Chanke, an elderly Negro from upcountry Transvaal, shuffled into their room seeking a work permit, the white clerks tried to make him admit illegal entry from Rhodesia. Chanke insisted that he lived in a Transvaal kraal, had a right to work in Johannesburg...
...Last week still another prelate chimed in. In Chelmsford, Anglican Bishop Henry Albert Wilson found "the landslide in sexual morals" so immense that he feared Christianity "is hanging by a thread in this country to-day." What particularly upset Bishop Wilson was a proposed Government measure which would permit magistrates' courts to handle divorce cases, now reserved for higher courts...