Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expecting to be married tomorrow in Stillman Infirmary, Frederick R. Suits 1L had his hopes shattered yesterday when Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, failed to sanction the unprecedented nuptials...
...participants in the Foster meeting. The most refreshing contrast to this Cambridge ban is the editorial criticism levelled by the Harvard Crimson against the university authorities. What the Communists say these days will probably win them few converts. But the kind of intolerance to which Harvard has given academic sanction can develop into something ugly and uncontrollable. It did in Detroit. --The Nation
...sessions which are rapidly becoming a Harvard institution. More than that, it saw a triumph of a principle proclaimed since the beginning of the controversy by critics of the Administration's tenure policies. The Faculty's resolution--cautious and ambiguous though its terminology may have been--constituted an official sanction of the system of frozen associate professorships...
...letters to the CRIMSON two opponents of the Communist Party supported the John Reed Society's request to get University sanction. Granville Hicks, former Communist leader who broke with the party over war policies this fall, defended Browder's right to speak despite his pending trial...
Although she used fighting words last week, Eleanor Roosevelt used to be considered a pacifist. Last February, during the Isolationist storm over Franklin Roosevelt's sanction of warplane sales to France, she began to edge out of her corner. "Germany," she wrote, "is geared to produce a thousand planes a month; France to produce one hundred planes a month. . . . Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies, or do they lie with the totalitarian states...