Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Please allow me to correct an untrue statement in the April 30 issue of TIME which read, "Ajax was just a great big, ambitious fellow like Jack Dempsey, given to extended mouthings." This you quoted as having been said by James Joseph Tunney; he did utter a similar statement while lecturing at Yale, but it happened to have been Jack Sharkey, not Dempsey, that Tunney said was given to extended mouthings and similar to Ajax...
...Passed the House bill to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to designate as repositories of public money any State banks or trust companies belonging to the Federal Reserve System...
...political confusion. I. R. T. officials admitted that a 7-cent fare would not eliminate the almost homicidal crushes on the I. R. T. at rush hours. Why, wondered economists, would it not be to the city's and the I. R. T.'s mutual advantage to allow more than one fare, keeping a 5-cent minimum? The London Underground and the Paris Metro and Nord-Sud sell tickets of various classes. Why not have 10-cent or even 25-cent turnstiles for thousands of riders who would pay to escape the cattle-like stampede? The extra revenue...
Remember-the Iris, beautiful as it is, may very easily become a nasty weed, if thick, and utterly spoil a beautiful lawn. Take heed-Do not allow yourselves to become so everlastingly tiresome. It may be disastrous...
...literature, propaganda were there aplenty. Parents said: "Don't touch that;" and children clamored for ice cream. Then there arose a tiff between eminent parents; the officials of the Parents' Exposition, at the suggestion of New York Superintendent of Schools William J. O'Shea, refused to allow the American Birth Control League to exhibit its wares at. the Grand Central Palace. So the A.B.C.L. set up its headquarters across the street in a dirty little vacant restaurant, displaying the following placard...