Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock which sounded the Chapel bell in days gone by, or was it the original penpetrator of the daily seven o'clock fantasia in Harvard Hall? Possibly Ben was the parent of all modern book agents whose bickering approach was heralded long enough to allow the artist to draw the picture and the message on his locked door. Had the writing been of a blue tint, Ben might well have been the prosequor of those instructors who demand in no uncertain voices that themes be written in black ink. The artist in this case might have been a gentleman, suffering...
Although Coach E. L. Farrell refused to give out any times, or allow any names to be printed, he admitted that there was some very good time turned in, both by the University and the Freshmen...
...years of our work together,--some of us writing and producing, you stimulating and shaping by your attendance and comments,--I have felt the need of rest and a gathering of new impetus. However, till now, I have not seen the time when I believed that I could rightly allow the activities of the 47, Workshop to cease for a year. Last Spring, a fire in the attic of Massachusetts Hall seriously burned the roof--admittedly, for this the 47 Workshop was in no way responsible. The Harvard Corporation, however, decided that instead of making temporary repairs they would carry...
...strictly a political speech. The occasion was the unveiling of a statue of Lafayette; but Mr. Coolidge digressed on the subject of American Liberty and presently came around to the Constitution. Mr. LaFollette's name was not mentioned; but the President thoroughly denounced the LaFollette proposal to allow Congress to override a Supreme Court decision that any law is unconstitutional. Said he: "No President, however powerful, and no majority of Congress, however large, can take from any individual, no matter how humble, that free dom and those rights which are guaranteed to him by the Constitution. The Supreme Court...
...question is whether America will allow itself to be degraded into a communistic or socialistic State or whether it will remain American. Those who want to continue to enjoy the high state of American citizenship will resist all attempts to encroach upon the power of the courts." In closing, he praised the disarmament treaties and the Experts' (Dawes) Plan. In Chicago, Mr. Dawes maintained a continued silence which has endured since his speech on agriculture at Lincoln (TIME, Sept. 8). One of his chief occupations was the preparation of a speech for delivery in Milwaukee-pointblank at Mr. LaFollette...