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...Stack plunged in at the mention of the backstroke. Then Reid swam 100-yards freestyle. After a practice 150-yard medley relay, Kiphuth lined them up for a 300-yard relay. He turned from the microphone and called for the timers. The crowd gasped. The AAU had given official sanction. A record might...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Health Hucksters Ogle Aquacaders | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...against profanity, worked hard to keep their language more sedate than the President's. Newspapers, including the New York Times ("All the News That's Fit to Print") boldly printed the initials "S.O.B." in headlines. A phrase long taboo in newspapers had been given a kind of sanction by passing through the President's mouth; S.O.B. had become editorial S.O.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Word That Came to Dinner | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Since all efforts to date have failed to obtain sanction for parking in the Eliot-Winthrop-Kirkland triangle and other areas, most car owners are forced to park in local garages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Possible Snows Today Bring More Worry to Car Owners | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...statement delivered to the CRIMSON by the executive committee of HYD last night asserted that "failure to punish these students and force them to repair the damage done will only give sanction to future attacks of a similar nature...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Unknown Assailants Attack HYD Pamphlet Distributor | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...PHILADELPHIA-where $20,000 in bogus $10 bills has recently been passed- WCAU-TV televised a counterfeit and a genuine ten-dollar bill (Hollywood is forced by law to photograph nothing but stage money). With Secret Service sanction, a commentator pointed out the differences (e.g., on the counterfeit, Hamilton's hair is lighter and whiter). WCAU has also televised pictures of wanted criminals, on the theory, says News Director Harold L. Hadley, that "guys who are wanted will frequent taprooms that have television." Fellow barflies are expected to turn them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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