Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post as State Attorney General until January 9, when the Republican-controlled State Legislature convenes, so that another Republican may be appointed by the legislature to fill his post. Democrat Harriman claims, however, that the meeting of the Senate on January 3 will automatically vacate Javits' state post and permit the Governor to fill the spot with an appointee...
...experiments suggested a number of practical applications of the fiber-optics principle. Used in medical instruments, the fiber bundles would permit doctors to examine and even photograph internal areas beyond the range of existing instruments. In the area of high-speed photography, fiber bundles might be used to cut the image into strips which would be registered side by side rather than one after another on the film, thus speeding up the camera action. The images would be reassembled by filtering them through a second fiber bundle when the film was being processed...
...more serious argument suggests that during football season drinking begins during or right after a game, and that to permit it to continue past the start of a House dance would be to risk numerous wrecked autos between Cambridge and Wellesley. There is a slight risk of this, but persons inclined to drink can now find places to booze until midnight, and no similarly disastrous results appear for parties held at other times of the year, or even on occasions like Spring Weekends, where drinking goes on, though not in rooms, from early afternoon until the liquor runs...
Finally, the one-to-four hours during the week should be restored, for they constitute neither inconvenience nor immorality, and would permit an unbroken afternoon of relaxed studying...
...lines. Though Elizabeth Peterson confounds none of her lines, nor in fact does anything foolish, she somehow conveys a less satisfactory impression. She is said to have a good voice, but I find it, and the seriousness with which she takes it, irritating. Her part, of course, will not permit the clownishness of the others, but still one wishes that she would consent to do mere Gilbert and Sullivan. (With a heynonny. .) Another element of undue sobriety can be found in the piano-playing, which because of its conscientious competence makes the overture seem interminable. The blocking is also occasionally...