Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford is essentially a revolutionist an innovator and pioneer. Nothing which seems susceptible of improvement is sacred to him merely because long usage and empty tradition sanction it. It is not improbable that he will try to work out a new educational scheme in the same spirit in which he improved the method of making glass, of assembling automobiles, of bringing up to date that specialization which Adam Smith outlined in "The Wealth of Nations" a century and a half ago. But in the new field he will not have so much liberty of action as in a room filled...
...conservation was the first task to which Secretary Wilbur, at President Hoover's direction, set his hand on taking office. First, he revoked government drilling permits where the holders could not prove bona fide development (TIME, March 25). Next, he gave his sanction to the American Petroleum Institute's voluntary nationwide agreement to hold down oil production, only to have the Department of Justice rule that such a scheme was possibly an anti-trust violation (TIME, April 22). His third proposal was a series of state treaties under the Constitution to limit the outflow of oil. Nine...
...competition to the sprinters from the other 14 New England colleges in the 50-yard event. David Cobb '31 will run in the half-mile, though Coach Farrell said late yesterday afternoon that the brilliant Crimson distance man might compete in the mile today if the Millrose officials would sanction...
Perhaps more important than the revision in the awarding of the scholarships is the change that gives greater freedom in their use. Taking away the narrow restrictions that have held the winner of an award to three years at Oxford, the trustees now sanction a two year scholarship at England's oldest university, followed by an optional third year there or elsewhere in Great Britain. Such latitude is almost certain to result in a further realization of the cosmopolitan potentialities latent in foreign scholarships...