Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant admitted that the use of government funds might permit considerable "federal influence" in secondary education, but maintained that the present school situation ought to be improved. He cited the NDEA disclaimer affidavit as an example of this influence, repeating the generally-held objections to the restrictions on students' beliefs in the article...
...thick, can be shaped to form rocket nozzles and caps for nose cones. Both these parts get punishing heat concentrated on rather small areas. The beauty of Pyrographite is that it conducts heat away from these danger points as fast as copper can, but it does not permit nearly as much heat to pass through it. A Pyrographite nose cone, for instance, spreads the heat of air friction over a large area and permits it to be radiated harmlessly away, but it does not let heat strike through the cone and damage the sensitive instruments or warhead inside...
Victory is within his grasp. Will he permit it to be snatched from him by the villain (Herbert Lorn), a sneery guide from the neighboring valley who sneaks off in the predawn darkness to beat him to the top? The last reel of the picture finds him chasing the wretch up what purports to be (but obviously is not) the sheer east face of the Matterhorn, in an exhibition of freehanded folly that made one old Alpinist who saw the picture snicker and inquire: "Why not do it on roller skates? It's just as safe...
...special committee with Loring Conant, Jr '61 as chairman, is already planning the trip. Forbes and the other nine members expect to know by February whether finances will permit the venture...
...serious intentions. If they wish, non-Honors students who do well in these interdepartmental tutorials might on the strength of their record and a qualifying essay be readmitted to Honors. Honors students, furthermore, should also be allowed to enroll in these tutorial group as much as facilities would permit...