Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal exemptions, which it is estimated will reduce revenue about $200,000,000. This reduction leaves a balance of $100,000,000 to be applied for reducing all other taxes, and this is not enough for a great deal of other reduction. It is not enough, for example, to allow the removal of taxes on automobiles. On the other hand, many observers expect the Committee to plan reductions which actually go beyond the $300,000,000 mark which it has agreed to. But Chairman Green expressed hope that the committee would be able to present a non-partisan tax bill...
...Targuist, little village on the northern slope of the Atlas Range, Abd-el-Krim, Riffian chief, was reported to be literally digging himself in for the winter. A subterranean refuge large enough to allow his automobile to enter and turn freely about has been constructed. And a star-shaped series of radiating trenches and dugouts extending for several miles has made of Targuist a stronghold which the Riffians are reported to consider impregnable. Cables assert that Abd-el-Krim has transported thither his treasures, arms, captives. Apparently Targuist is to replace Ajdir as his capital...
Last week, Princeton battled the strong Havertord eleven, picked by many to win premier honors in the League, to a 22 tie. It was a case of two equality matched elevens meeting on a soggy field that did not allow either team to show its best brand of play...
...three days prior to each game, allow the players no food whatever. This will heighten their natural animal ferocity. On the other days feed them sparingly on raw meat, which should be thrown to them, so they will have to fight for it among themselves...
...Allow me to say a few words in answer to an article which appeared in the editorial column of Wednesday's CRIMSON under the title of "Duces Wild". This article was probably intended to throw ridicule at Mussolini, but unfortunately the author has descended to such a depth of calumnious utterances that instead of provoking mirth, his words bring only disgust to the reader. The disparagement of great men is a pastime indulged in by the intellectuals of every country, when it is done with due regard to decency of speech, but when such a diversion goes beyond all limits...