Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued, "which you get here to go into journalism and dramatics while in college. It makes voa much more independent and selfreliant than the German student, and broadens your outlook. In regard to cholastic work, on the other hand. I think you are much more dependent. Your authorities allow you nowhere near the amount of freedom which German students have. A certain amount of compulsion is undoubtedly necessary, however...
...explained that he favored the kick-off change because it would give the kicking team less chance to cover the kick and hence would allow more frequent, run-backs. He took this stand instead of the more common one that good kickers kick over the goal too often under the present rule. "A good kicker," he said, "can kick over the goal line from 60 yards away as easily as from midfield...
...nothing is more likely to lead this country into friction and into war with other powers than to allow them to think that we do not mean what we say. That is not aggression, that is not pugnacity; it is a business arrangement so that everybody may know that when we say a thing we mean...
...going to allow leniency on our part to be misinterpreted as weakness. We are not going to allow the British name to be dragged in the dirt. We are not going to allow British officers to be murdered with impunity. We are not going to allow obligations which are due to us to be flouted...
Remarked Samuel Gompers: "It was a wonderful sight. It was a good thing to allow everybody to see the President. Mexico is improving every minute...