Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Post: "Most of them (college papers), in the youthful ardor of their literary souls, allow that something must be done to 'deflate the exaggerated emphasis on college football'. And perhaps some thing should...
...building regulations allow only a small number of persons to stand at the rear of Appleton Chapel or in the galleries, the attendance is limited to those who can be admitted under the legal requirements. The musical program for the services will...
...Keep the cans out of the sun in summer and away from steam pipe-and stoves in winter. Don't allow the water to freeze...
...this revolt does prove only a flurry, then it will be a sad admission of a charge often made against American colleges today. We believe that to allow football to hold the place it holds now in undergraduate life is to admit that the majority of undergraduates do not come to college to train their minds. It means that social success, a good time, are most important, and that learning is incidental...
...Arbuthnot Lane, "constipation. I find it hard to get that word into the newspapers ... so that the public will know what I am talking about. I was asked recently to give a ten-minute talk on this subject over the radio. I did. The radio people wouldn't allow me to say constipation...