Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedish Diet approved a bill to allow women to enter the public services on the same footing as men, with the exception of the fighting services, the Church, presiding judgeships in the highest provincial courts...
...only does he strike the difficulty that persons seem to disagree more over the merits of a play than over those of any other from the writing, but also that of writing an adequate criticism of twenty one-act plays in less time and space than the reviewer can allow or be allowed...
...stamping themselves as the better combination of the two. The margin of victory, however, was not such as to warrent the rating of the first much above the juniors in actual speed for two miles, for University B, stroked by Mumford, continually pressed their opponents and refused to allow the latter to get away...
...weakness which could not do without support." His father says: " His general culture is full of gaps and he lacks genuine depths. This lack of maturity and this inexperience in my son, combined with his tendency toward exaggeration, make me feel that it would be dangerous to allow him to concern himself, at present, in foreign affairs." Bismarck remarks: " He is a man who would like to have a birthday every day, or solemn processions, or receptions, or parades, and, in his haughtiness, the role of the world's arbiter would be to his liking...
...July 5, 1914: From the Austrian Red Book the author reproduces two diplomatic telegrams which clearly show that the ex-Kaiser was not wholly unconscious of the impending catastrophe since he advised Austria that she should not allow an opportunity, such as presented itself, to slip away. Then, says the author, " the fact remains that war was caused on that fifth day of July in 1914. And that very man, who, after the carnage, after millions of unfortunates have perished, after he hardly dares to look upon the accusing earth for fear of seeing a tomb rise up before...