Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modest Essex vicarage a center of political and ecclesiastical turmoil since his appointment in 1910. Known as "the Red vicar," Father Noel once flew a red flag from his steeple, during World War I hung the green banner of the Irish Sinn Fein party near his pulpit, refused to permit the British Union Jack in his church...
...Council committee's purpose is to deal firmly with agents who never quote the same prices twice and to put the brakes on cut-throat dance competition in order to permit dance chairmen to use black ink in their ledgers for a change. A wise choice of time is a vital factor in holding a successful dance and to deny a central committee power here as the individuals propose, is to nullify all its other good offices. Last spring's jumbled, conflicting dance schedule is a good example of what happens under "autonomy." By eliminating competition for dances, the inter...
...British try to make sure that only true war profits are subjected to the excess-profits tax. They permit corporations to base their excess-profits-tax exemption on the corporation's best pre-war year if it was 1935 or 1936, or on the most prosperous combination of 1935 and 1937 or 1936 and 1937. U.S. corporations have to take the bad years with the good...
...Private Sergei Sazonovich Sviridov, a farm boy from Roga, wept on his hospital bed and cried to the New York Times's C. L. Sulzberger: "I didn't ever get a chance to join in the real attack. I was wounded. If my feet would permit. . . ." His hospital record said: "Feet blown off by shell...
...inarticulate draft board, the saddest parts of the pother were that Ingersoll had told it he would not permit his employer to ask for his deferment, that Marshall Field's telegram to General Hershey was filed late and out of order, that the board had never been favored with proof of Field's claim that his editor was indispensable. Nonetheless the case was sent up to an Appeal Board, while PM still fulminated...