Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another big corporation last week was planning to move its headquarters out of noisy, expensive, traffic-jammed Manhattan. Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. said it would buy a 280-acre estate in Westchester County, 20 miles from the big city, provided that zoning laws are changed to permit Carbide to construct office buildings costing $12,500,000 for its 2,500 head-office employees. The company thought that its workers would be happier in the Westchester hills than in "the canyons of New York...
Meanwhile, in Rome, Ingrid Bergman awaited the birth of twins while her husband waited to hear whether he would be granted a U.S. entrance visa to permit him a chance to answer, at first hand, Lindstrom's "calumnies." To a reporter, Actress Bergman complained: "I cannot understand why my former husband and myself cannot deal with problems involving [Pia] as grownups...
...term Representative Blanchard '94 and Bates'19 of the Massachusetts Legislature broke into the news by charging that the University was under the iron thumb of big business: "Freedom of speech is dead while big business forces every scholar to say only what J. P. Morgan and his crowd permit him to say. Harvard succeeded in getting $5 million for the Business School, but it couldn't raise a cent to keep the greatest dramatic teacher in America...
Prohibition and Yale keynoted much early fall dining room conversation. President Angell had greeted their Eli compatriots with the dictum that either they observe prohibition or face dismissal. "The University will not permit dissipation. No man can come to any great success at Yale who is known to be a dissipated man." Yale sophomores were required to sign a pledge swearing they would never take part in a riot. Harvard yearlings began to be doubly glad they hadn't strayed New Haven...
Lowell may have presented the members of the class of 1927 with a practical philosophy; it was well in keeping with the spirit of the day. But too much has happened in the past twenty-five years to permit graduating seniors still to hope that through some method their efforts might be means to a greater end. Lowell presented a vague rationalization for worldly gain. Conant likewise has a practical philosophy, but one with practical goals too. He saw the preservation of democracy as the end, and the work of the reformer as the means to this...