Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German people will not permit themselves to be pulled out of this [Western] community nor will they separate themselves voluntarily from it . . . A compulsory neutralization or isolation from any alliance would be the worst road for us to choose or into which to force...
Kalmus explained that "the HAA would not permit radio descriptions of hockey games because these contests were played in the Boston Garden and Arena and broadcasting might tend to cut attendance." Since most home games are now played in the Donald C. Watson rink at no cost to students, he pointed out, there is no reason to refuse broadcasting rights to WHRB...
...under conditions it could closely control. But it reacted most violently against anything that smacked of the elimination of barriers to the freer exchange of ideas . . . After a generation of fanatical indoctrination the So viet rulers can hardly bring themselves to loosen their existing thought controls so as to permit a freer contact with the free world...
John O'Hara is a skilled writer who hates small towns and (intellectually speaking) has small chance of ever leaving one. The one he has chosen to hate and not permit his readers to leave is a place called Gibbsville, Pa. (he was born in Pottsville, Pa.). The same people are present in this Zenith-on-the-Schuylkill as lived when Julian English made his famous Appointment in Samarra. Old Dr. English is older and discouraged, but Novelist O'Hara, though older (50), is not discouraged...
...University established the Office of Special Students in 1916 to permit "serious students beyond the normal college age" to take courses, for a period not over a year, without working toward any degrees. Aside from the Dean, these is also an Administrative Board to watch over those accepted for the program. Competition for the very limited enrollment in the department is so keen that usually not even the top scholars from other colleges are considered for eligibility. This is a recent development, however, indicative of the administrations desire to cut down on the number participating in the program. There were...