Word: allot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method used will be similar to the one inaugurated three years ago. The essential point in this method is its absolute impartiality. Rooms will be assigned by lot, preference being shown to the larger groups. The rooms available are expected to hold approximately 380 men. The committee will allot rooms in such a manner as to hold the maximum number of applicants...
...masculine half of mankind exceedingly dilatory and shortsighted, consistent only in its love of a fight. She finds the pugnacious instinct in politicians so ingrained that every political operation of form or fancy must run the gamut of battle. When women, writes Mrs. Blair, hold a convention, they allot to each delegate an equal number of complimentary tickets, but when men convene politically, they pass through the throes of civil combat to appoint a ticket committee favorable to one side or another...
...everyone knows that the Vatican is somewhat resigned to the confiscation of the Papal States by Italy; would be content if Italy would allot in fee simple, free from secular suzerainty, a narrow strip of land from Rome to the Tiber estuary, so that the Pope could have his own seaport, could travel abroad without touching Italian soil...
...Received a favorable report by the Military Affairs Committee on a bill to allot captured German cannon to states in proportion to the number of troops furnished during...
Gardner Cowles Jr., '25, was appointed chairman of the 1925 Dormitory Committee which will allot the Yard dormitory rooms to the 1925 classmen next spring. The other members of this Junior committee are: J. H. Child, J. B. Tailer Jr., W. P. Beal, J. D. Lodge, Joe de Ganahl, W. S. Blanchard, A. C. Gunby, Alden Briggs, H. P. Sharp, S. G. French, and D. S. Byers...