Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ramsay Rampant. As Sir Austen resumed his seat, famed Laborite Leader Ramsay Macdonald pounced venomously upon his last words: "I am very much inclined to allow the laurels which the right honorable gentleman has just placed upon his own head to remain there without question...
Measures Passed: 1) A 100% increase in the duty on wheat: 2) A 50% increase in the duty on flour; 3) Legislation blocking the enactment of ultra-reactionary laws; 4) A law punishing blackmailers and blackmailees, if the latter allow themselves to be blackmailed; 5) The taking over by the Government of the Nishihara private loans to China; 6) The creation of a subsidy on domestic pig iron and steel; 7) Large educational and .small naval appropriations; 8) A tax on soft drinks...
Activities for Friday afternoon will be restricted to a short practice on the Catholic University Field. On Saturday afternoon, the Crimson will meet Catholic University. The contest will take place early enough to allow the Harvard team to catch a train for Boston that night which is scheduled to leave at 7.30 o'clock...
...tutorial system at Harvard is very much in the same position as a new baby. It has sufficient ugliness to make honest friends of the parents casual in their praise; it is sufficiently naked to allow real inspection by the skeptic who rather doubts the worth of babies as items in the sum total of pragmatic profit; and it is enough of a power, for all babies are autocrats, to make the older brothers and sisters worry about future fatted calves...
...line by the team against whom the safety was made. The reason for its adoption is that safeties were being made intentionally to waste time and thereby prevent the opposing team from making a touchdown. A team in the lead by the margin of one touchdown can afford to allow its opponent as many as three safeties. The new play makes it absolutely necessary to put the ball into play by kicking. This takes the ball away from the team playing for time...