Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to the so-called "duel" at the Los Angeles Junior College [TIME, May 31], you must have been impressed with the fact that no faculty sanction would or could have been given, not to mention my own approval, to any exhibition which could have proved injurious or fatal to the participants. . . . For your elucidation we used regulation combat épées (as approved by the Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape...
...Flushing Meadows April 30, 1939, stepped aboard the Normandie last week. He was bound for the International Bureau of Expositions in Paris to get his Fair officially recognized. The Bureau consists of 22 nations who got together in 1928, decided that there were too many international fairs, agreed to sanction only one a year. The U. S. is not a member of the Bureau and Mr. Whalen's visit at this time is only a matter of form, but the Bureau's blessing will be useful. Twenty-four U. S. State Legislatures have already decided to participate officially...
...first article on the government of Harvard, President Dunster and others responsible saw the value of a system of checks and balances in University politics. Whereas many other colleges have only one governing board, their trustees, Harvard has two, and the workable board of seven must obtain the sanction of the cumbersome board of thirty...
Dean Hanford has given his sanction to the meeting, which will be the second held indoors since the ban placed on outdoor rallies...
...Conant's well known liberal views. The old saying has been applied to him that he is tolerant of everything except intolerance. No one has more vigorously fought for academic freedom and resisted efforts to curb free speech or civil libertics. Such a man, obviously, would not sanction the discharge of instructors from the university staff simply because some of their public statements had aroused criticism. It is well that, in the case in point, he has used the occasion more to drive home clemental truths which in these "explosive times" are in danger of being forgotten. N. Y. Herald...