Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bingham '16 brought out the necessity of a new swimming pool and a gymnasium, saying that when the new pool was built, as he hoped it would be by this time next year, it would be on a plot of land big enough to allow a gym to be erected beside it. He also reiterated his former statement that the extra money received from the new price of Princeton and Yale football tickets would be used entirely for the benefit of men who were not on any of the regular squads...
...think this effect would be beneficial. Others, and the vote shows there are two hundred more of these, think it would not. But the question remains in doubt in the minds of a great many. Too brief a time has elapsed since the proposal was first brought forward to allow adequate discussion and consideration of the real points at issue...
...Allow me to add my voice to the doubtless already large group of protestors against the treatment accorded to graduates who were so foolish as to give their time to a visit back to the University on May 1. Although I live in the Middle West, I happened, fortunately, to be in New York and so count it only as a day wasted, but it was annoying and a disgrace to Harvard...
...Belmont has found, are not so tolerant as he of Canterbury. Last week she addressed a letter to Bishop William T. Manning of New York, from whom she had received, indirectly, an invitation to give money to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. She begged Bishop Manning to allow her to remind him that only a few years ago he had refused to permit her name, the name of a divorcee, to appear in the yearbook of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. "What I fail to understand," wrote Mrs. Belmont, "is, why this...
...beheld Captains Loriga and Gonzalez-Gallarza who had come all the way from their native Spain on a hopping-trip from Madrid in two planes. They were to keep hopping until they reached Manila in the Philippines. They received word that in crossing Japan the military authorities would not allow them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane was missing. Companions in another plane had been confounded crossing the turbulent air-passages of hot Arabia, had descended in a sandstorm...