Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Often a man is sent to a single officer's post where a country will not permit him to talk to the populace. Health conditions are sometimes very poor, and he must undergo great sacrifices to continue his work. It is not a position for 'kids'; we are interested in obtaining only those men who can efficiently conduct such work...
Calling the University a seat of higher learning, John T. Flynn, famed economist and former editor of the "New Republic," in an interview yesterday afternoon held it inexcusable that students should permit themselves to be influenced and swayed by outside emotions...
Flotsam has brief incidents, descriptions, and mere casual statements that have the impact and brightness of poems: Kern's exquisite pleasure, under shelter of a fortnight's residential permit, in asking a policeman for the time; Steiners utter lack of interest in the world's news ("For someone swimming under water . . . the color of the fishes isn't important"); the man who stands at a Paris police window seemingly in perfect nonchalance, streaming with the sweat of terror; a magnificent passage in which Steiner watches Germany swing past his train window in the dark; Steiner...
...Mata pointed out that the United States does not permit Argentine beef to compete with American sales, and that the consequent high price of beef deprives many, of the lower income groups of an important food. Importation of Argentine beef would lower the price level, he maintained, but in return the Argentine would buy American machinery and automobiles...
...street outside. The Franklin Simon window attracted almost too much attention. Army authorities straightway protested against this unseemly display of the uniform, and Franklin Simon had to substitute a vaguely military garb. The New York Police Department served the store with a summons for broadcasting without a permit. After three days of it, Franklin Simon decided to call the whole thing...