Word: allots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary antagonism exists between the tutorial and course systems. Yet in the present state, warfare is continuous and bitter. Every student must allot his time between the two. On the one side, there is the intellectual stimulus of a tutor, the joy in work for its own sake, and the risk of being fired from the benefits of college because of neglect of courses. On the side of the course system, there is the lure of honors for the bright and hard-working, perhaps a scholarship; for the slow, the assurance that he will remain in the academic folds until...
...Anyone who thinks that the Government is going to underwrite the strike had best get it out of his head. . . . There was a rumor that got back to me that I was going to allot money to the unions for strike relief. ... In the last 15 months appropriations made because of strikes, in excess of our regular grants, have been almost negligible. The facts of this are illustrated in the recent California strike, where we have evidence that the number of strikers who applied for relief was only...
Onward he went with his good work. In 1929, the same year in which he married Florence Lincoln, wealthy divorced wife of William A. Rockefeller, he became, at the age of 36, president of his Institute. He launched still greater programs, teaching cotton mills to install accounting systems, to allot overhead costs, campaigning against night work for women and children. In May, 1933 Secretary Roper decorated his Institute with the annual Award of the American Trade Association Executives "for outstanding service to industry...
...Benjamin Harrison's time the Department of Interior began to allot farms to the members of the Five Civilized Tribes. To Jackson Barnett, for his very own, went 160 acres in eastern Oklahoma which he did not bother to go and look at. In 1912 after Crazy Jack had lived peaceably through the administrations of 18 Presidents, something happened to him. A man came, gave him $800, got him to put his thumb print on a paper granting the right to drill for oil on his farm for which he was to receive a royalty of one-eighth...
...nine months brings forth an almost healthy baby. The facts which he has learned about, painting, sculpture, and architecture, make him amazingly precocious; he always impresses suitably his father's friends. But like most babies he is unable to sort out the facts which he has garnered and allot them their proper rank Possibly he is a bit superficial...