Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton will not allow its undergraduates to keep them. Stevens, head coach at Yale, has forbidden his football squad to ride in them during the season. Automobiles. Or what Copey once called "hell wagons...
...consolation, though it, too, is depressing is that Yankee hypocrisy would be certain to allow us our books via the medium of a bootlegger. In that part of the world visible to the average Harvard student, Prohibition did little more than take drinking from the corner saloon and put it in the home, the college dormitories, and exclusive little clubs now known as speakeasies. True, it did slightly cheapen the quality and slightly increase the cost of liquor. Our libraries may someday be filled by methods not unlike the way we now fill our cellars...
...Please allow me, as one of the undergraduate body, to commend your helpful, sensible, and courageous "Confidential Guide"--with the hope that the criticism therein may be as effectual as in the case of Gov. 1. Frederick Thon...
...Australian states set up thei'r enforcement machinery. It functioned unhindered until the Dominion Arbitration Court Act was passed in 19154. Ever since there have been incessant conflicts. It is notorious that the powers of the Dominion Court under the Australian Constitution are not sufficiently broad to allow it to function efficiently. On the other hand, the Dominion Court's powers have often been sufficient to paralyze state labor boards and courts...
...over a year disgruntled Monagasques have sent letters and delegations to their grumpy prince, have begged him to repair the water works, improve the telephone service, allow his subjects greater control in the direction of that fountain head of all Monaco's prosperity, the Monte Carlo Casino (TIME, Jan. 7, 1928). Grumpy Prince Louis did nothing. Lately the Monagasques have been louder in their demands. Brusquely they threatened to revolt...