Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Public Health Service, just returned from Germany. The German civilian army has paid and is paying for the military might of the Reich. Last week German Sculptor Jean Sauer of Mainz announced that he had invented an ersatz coffin made of resin, which the Nazi authorities "will permit to be used instead of wood coffins...
Neatly rigged to permit Benny & friends to triumph, the Jell-O quiz was repeated this week. Posing as a nine-year-old wizard on a quiz board composed of William Shakespeare, aged 6, Isaac Newton, 7, Lady Godiva, 6, and Fred Allen, 8, Benny made a great to-do about coaxing the Quiz Kids into telling him what sort of questions he will be asked when he shows up on their show later. As guest of the Quiz Kids, Benny will be primed on gags but not on questions...
...Petrovitch has been haranguing his countrymen from across their borders ever since 1939. Before then he was Paris correspondent for the Belgrade Pravda and so bitter about the Nazis that Berlin put on the screws to have him silenced. Unable to send dispatches, he suggested that the French permit him to short-wave his stuff twice a day. When the Nazis moved into France, Dr. Petrovitch fled to Vichy, making talks from towns along the line of retreat. Finally Petain ordered him to shut up, whereupon he headed...
...Admiral Willson, the superintendent of the Naval Academy. After discussion with him, he gave Coach Snibbe and myself three choices: (1) to bench Alexis for the game, and Navy would bench a player of similar ability. (2) to take the game from Navy by forfeit. (3) to permit the Admiral to phone the authorities of Harvard in Cambridge. There can be no doubt that Admiral Willson repeatedly said that it would be impossible to play Alexis against the Academy, and if Harvard insisted, the Academy would forfeit the game...
...statement reported by the Associated Press last night, Admiral Willson claimed that the Navy always had and always will permit its teams to compete with other teams containing members of any races...