Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apart from this there is a feeling in the French capital that the German propaganda for avoiding payment of reparations has failed, and that Germany can now be forced to make reasonable terms. There is no disposition on the part of the French Government to allow Germany to escape her just liabilities. Raymond...
...same as on that memorable occasion, but the triumph of the red-ink team was even more noteworthy than ever before. It was with the deepest regret that its captain was forced to agree to calling the game at the end of the 11th inning, in order to allow the last Lampoon player to catch the 5.15 ambulance for Mt. Auburn...
...Amendment of the law to allow foreign ships to bring in their ship-stores of liquor under bond. Since this must wait till the next Congress convenes, serious foreign complications may arise in the meantime...
...bound to be met with approval by some lawyers, as well as by those who are primarily concerned with law enforcement. The limit was first fixed at a league (of three miles) in the days of sailing ships, when that was considered a sufficient margin of safety to allow for the apprehension of smugglers. There is, therefore, much to be said in favor of its extension, even though the mile of " hot pursuit" allows a revenue cutter to go more than a league from shore to apprehend a bootlegger caught openhanded. But the State Department has apparently taken the sound...
...dangerous, in a negative way, is the host of perfectly good-hearted people who, seemingly engaged in occupations requiring intelligence, settle down to methods of working, and more important, habits of thinking no less mechanical than turning a screw every ten seconds. Clerks, at first fresh and alert, who allow their jobs to become mere routine with no spark of inquiry enlivening a high-sided rut; preachers and educators who discard their youthful enthusiasm and experimentation for dogma; engineers who reject commonsense in favor of half understood formulae; doctors who rely on the heroic remedies of former ages--such...