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Word: permitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here the German Government was believed to have notified the Swedish Government that the Reich could never permit British and French troops in Northern Europe. Meanwhile, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, Chief of all Nazi Armies, pointedly visited Danzig and Gotenhafen, on the southern Baltic, to inspect "military reconstruction work." No passage, said the Swedish Foreign Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Sweden Failed | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

LONDON--Great Britain will not permit the use of Norweglan or other neutral waters by the German fleet, Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain declared in Parliament today, repeating the British charge of Norwegian negligence in handling the German prison ship Altmark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

Glamours is a shiny satin evening grown which she filled to perfection Miss Jane Laurie settled herself on a divan backstage of the Odd-Fellows Ball in North Cambridge and signed. "A stage career doesn't permit a girl to develop her talents for sincere romance, or any romance for that matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Young Actress Deplores Poor 'Technique' of Grad Students' | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

...overcome the few Hollywood histrionics left in his performances. Lee Cobb may be called the conscience of the drama. He conveys the futility and emotional vehemence of a man fighting for his ideals. Everywhere he is frustrated; at times, sad to relate, by the script itself which does not permit an adequate expression of his pent-up spleen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/14/1940 | See Source »

...possible Italian tie-up with the Allies, with a thrust at the Russian oil fields at Baku by Weygand's French, British and possibly Turkish Army, from Syria. Quick action was being urged, said he. because "the present situation in the unpredictable Balkans, and particularly in Rumania, will permit no delay." By Wednesday night, he could see this campaign advancing right to Rumania, "a natural battlefield for open warfare between the mechanized units of modern armies." By Friday, black Balkan headlines had given plenty of point to Editor Williams' Balkan pointers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Philco Seer | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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