Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religion is composed essentially of these elements. The only satisfactory approach to religion must itself be religious, sympathetic. Religion is a matter of experience; he who has not undergone the religious experience has no right to pass judgment on religion. Let us give religion a fair chance, and allow it to make its appeal in its own peculiar manner...
...wrote a letter pointing out what he considered to be the faults of the bill as passed by the House: 1) that it would leave the treasury with a deficit, 2) that its surtaxes were still so high that they would destroy the source of revenue, 3) that its allowance of a "reasonable salary" as earned income, in cases such as those of storekeepers would be difficult to determine and it would be better to class all income under $5,000 as earned income, 4) that inspection of tax returns by Congressional Committees would not foe objectionable providing the proceeding...
During the oversea portions of the flight pontoons will be added to allow the planes to light on the water, if necessary. In Calcutta and London new engines will be installed...
...unprecedented extent by the limitation of numbers, the prospect "is not encouraging for those Harvard men who know that their sons are not pre-eminent in scholarship, athletics or school leadership, but are sure they are good material for the college." It might be suggested that these fond parents allow their paternal pride to overrule their better judgment--and that it is difficult to see just what athletic eminence has to do with the New Plan examinations. But extraordinary brilliance will never be required for admission to Harvard; and as the sons of graduates have apparently inherited sufficient intelligence...
...advance in copper prices after Anaconda's suspension of the dividend has been in part due to the belief that this company and others in the same position intended to curtail production, in order to allow the red metal to advance to price levels where production would prove more profitable...