Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public adores freaks; it always will. And certain doting mothers will allow precocious performances of their offspring to beguile them into dragging the offspring before the journalistic spotlight. So, occasionally, some child will, through environment or training or whatnot, concoct verses to delight the critics. But critics are often guileless, often glad to enjoy novelty. The maternal conscience should keep more awake. For, after all, few poets of eleven can at thirty survive the reading of their earliest verse. If they can they are not poets...
...which would broaden the scope of the Harvard Yale-Princeton agreement, is very laudable. But why have it a mutually exclusive organization. Neither the Western nor the Missouri Valley Conference forbid their members to play preliminary non-conference games. Therefore, why could not a similar organization in the East allow for non-conference games, or at least for preliminary games with schools belonging to other conference with similar characteristics. Donald McCloud...
Coach Cowles when asked whether he thought that such pictures were of value, told the CRIMSON reporter: "I advise all tennis enthusiasts to be present. The pictures have a distinct educative value, and are interesting as they allow the spectator to see whether the champions whose play seems so perfect during match play, have any defects when subjected to the test of slow-motion pictures...
Last year Mr. Dunworth substituted at the Yale Club in New York when the scheduled speaker was unable to arrive on time. The Club reports that the Yale graduates became so interested in the performance of Mr. Dunworth that they did not allow him to stop even when the regular speaker for the evening arrived...
...thought it would look very well in print". And, fortunately, the gentle lady was right: "Evelina" did look well in print. The formidable Dr. Johnson testified to the truth of that. But the isolated case of this authoress, who, by the way, was really an authoress, does not allow everyone to conclude that his writing must also appear to advantage on the printed page. From every side come puerile messages published by ball players and bankers, doctors and divorcees, cowboys and counts...