Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French and Italian schools removed everything but the cross, which, in the circumstances, was the one bit of advertising likely to give offense; for this, they were immediately closed, and protest was made by their respective governments. The National Assembly was undoubtedly quite within its rights in refusing to allow foreign schools of a different faith to make converts of its citizens; but with such summary action, it is almost inevitable that the gain in internal religious morale will be more than offset by a subsequent coldness of diplomatic relations...
...Passed a bill to allow the Shipping Board to use $25,000,000 derived from ship sales to install Diesel engines in various vessels...
...only the most external of reforms. What needs changing is not the student's scholarship, but his way of looking at scholarship. And that change can be brought about only by the lectures and adhereats of scholarship themselves. "Intellectual curiosity" is far from being dead- but the superimposed Divisionals allow little room for that curiosity. They stimulate at present study merely; where, if they were to accomplie, their best purpose they should stimulate thought. Barke Boyce...
...country different from the European countryside. We look differently?nowhere in Europe can he discover faces remotely resembling those of Mr. Harding, Mr. Bryan or General Pershing?we walk differently and act differently. Our nation moves and thinks with a suddenness, a violence and a uniformity unknown abroad; we allow ourselves to be taken in by Mr. H. G. Wells, and we have?it is the one contrast which no Englishman ever forgets?bathtubs...
...result, notices have been posted in the boathouse all spring forbidding all swimming from the float. The decision reached yesterday by Mr. Moore and Mr. Geer to remove these signs and allow swimming from restricted portions of the float comes as a compromise between the men who protested their wish to use the float for bathing purposes, and the crew managers who would like to eliminate the bathing altogether from the boathouse...