Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea, however, that this country can allow its hopes of peace to make it incapable of defending its possessions in the event of those hopes being disappointed is not the way to produce peace, but is the way to lay us open to war which otherwise might never have taken place...
...Year to Live. You can feel fairly certain after scrutinizing this title that, in the end, she finds that the "one year to live" decision is reversed to allow her marriage and the happy ever-afterward. Before this, she was a dancer's maid; supported her invalid sister, became a dancer; warded off seduction by the wicked theatre man. It is pretty bad, even as these things go, notwithstanding the presence of Dorothy Mackaill, Antonio Moreno, Rosemary Theby, Aileen Pringle and Joseph Kilgour...
...official debut of M. L. Brown '25, hero of this year's Hasty Pudding show, on the professional stage as leading man in "Topsy and Eva" at the Colonial Theatre was postponed from Saturday to tonight in order to allow him additional time for rehearsal Brown spent the weekend rehearsing with Miss Nydia D'Arnell, the leading lady...
...point where it really ought to begin. It seems to them that many of the facts acquired for the first time in college could have been learned more profitably in preparatory or high school; and they feel that the entire fabric of American education needs revision to allow for greater freedom for individual thinking in the colleges...
Secretary Davis: "Shame to a state which will permit a child of a normal mother to be taken away or which will allow brothers and sisters to be auctioned off to the highest bidder ..." (The Secretary's metaphoric reference was to institutions for orphans which can care for applicants only according to the extent of their facilities, the size of their endowments, and to adoptions by well-to-do foster parents arranged by bureaus...