Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors; 2) seizing British and Dutch ships on the ground that "personal enemies of myself are being nurtured in British and French Guiana;" and 3) grossly insulting the French Government by refusing to allow their Minister to Venezuela to land, "because I suspect that the fellow has yellow fever!"-an impish charge unsubstantiated by any fact...
...heard of in Shanghai, where he was suffering and recovering from a slight nervous breakdown and bronchitis. Before he disappeared, he wrote a letter to his physician, as follows: "I came to China seeking peace and quiet and hoping that here at least people would mind their business and allow me to mind mine. But I have found more snoops and gossips per square inch than in any New England town of 1,000 inhabitants. This does not apply to American newspaper correspondents who have been most decent carrying out their duties in a most gentlemanly manner...
Juniors are reminded that applications for rooms in the Yard next year are ready at the Bursar's Office and should be called for as soon as possible. They must be returned there by. January 15 and as men should form groups, they should allow themselves sufficient time...
Juniors are reminded that applications for rooms in the Yard next year are ready at the Bursar's Office and should be called for as soon as possible. They must be returned there by January 15 and as men should form groups, they should allow themselves sufficient time...
...Cleveland, Judge Harrison W. Ewing, a rather lean, idealistic-looking married man, looked upon two applicants for divorce and refused their request. Then he said: "I shall not allow you to impose more children upon yourselves or upon society. ... I impose upon you three years of birth control." And then he added that he would help them get a divorce after three years, if they then desire it and provided they have no more children...