Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actual construction work will begin during the spring and summer where the supply of materials and the nature of the individual projects permit. The $42,000 program is the first of its kind to be instituted by the University, Provost Buck disclosed, and is aimed at insuring the livability of the Houses when the College emerges from its overcrowded state...
...Free and Responsible Press" may be employed very skillfully by those totalitarians who desire neither a free nor a responsible press. Rather than permit these people to use it as a weapon with which to throttle a democratic institution, intelligent leaders of the American press should take to heart the eminently sensible statements of this Report and erase the symptoms of a disease which encourages the malicious work of free-expression suppressers...
...Bosun of the Kingfisher Patrol of the Sea Rangers (seagoing Guides), and woe betide any Ranger who came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber. "Here," she once told her chatterbox sister Margaret, "I am not your sister, and I'll permit no slackness." Margaret, too, can be critical. "Lilibet," she once said, "that's the fourteenth chocolate biscuit you've eaten. You're as bad as Mother-you don't know when to stop...
...royal oak of Latin American journalism. He had an old score to settle. In October 1945, just before Peron's two-day fall from power, La Prensa had thundered that the Government should be turned over to the Supreme Court. Furious, Juan Peron had replied: "I shall not permit La Prensa to shout the Government down." He has never forgotten. It would have been hard to forget, for La Prensa has been the oak around which much of Peron's opposition has rallied, perhaps without a full realization that it is in the midst of social revolution...
Said another: the city of Cleveland disposes of 28,000 stray dogs a year, but the Animal Protective League will not permit their use in laboratories. A California delegate complained that in his state unwanted dogs are made into fertilizer: "But ... we don't dare show visitors through our laboratories for fear they'll hear a dog bark...