Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision of the faculty to permit women in the dorms until eleven o'clock on Saturday night seems very unsatisfactory to me, for in granting thi concession, they somehow felt obliged to subtract another eighteen hours during the week. Many of us have come to a appreciate these afternoon hours, especially on Friday afternoons when we were able to listen to the B.S.O. Concerts which begin at two, and on Saturday, when we were not obliged to go to the football games for something...
...fever and, though a light drinker, he fortified himself with some brandy, chased by several slugs of whisky. When his turn came to take the oath, he stood up, weaving slightly, and made an unscheduled but extremely fiery speech ("Humble as I am, plebeian as I may be deemed, permit me in the presence of this brilliant assemblage . . ."). "Senators on the Republican side." reported the New York World, "began to hide their heads." Notables tugged at his coattails, but Johnson paid no heed. The Vice President was quite drunk...
...disastrous mission to China in 1945-46, implied that Vincent was being condemned for "reporting the facts as he saw them . . . We should not by inadvertence take any step which might lower the high traditions of our own Foreign Service to the level established by governments which will permit their diplomats to report to them only what they want to hear...
Commuters moved a step close to solution of their library problem last night when the Student council passed a proposal to permit all undergraduates to check out Lamont reserve books after 4 p.m. on Fridays instead of the usual 9 p.m. hour...
...last night's case, is an ex-communist alien who migrated to this country from Rumania in 1921, and lived here until he returned home in 1950 to visit members of his family. Upon his return to the United States he was refused admittance and his re-entry permit was cancelled by the Attorney General...