Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...director of the theatre. Monsieur Dancourt. Complaining of the shortness of the play and of the inappropriateness of its title, she refuses to act her part of heroine. The director's remonstrances are in vain. Mile. des Brosses, attendant to Mile. Beauval, announces that the author refuses to allow the play to proceed with the present cast, whereupon Mile. Beauval is as insistent on taking the part of heroine as she had previously been in declining to do so. Monsieur du Bocage, manager for the company, rushes in and begs the players to make rapid preparations as the audience...
...masonry, 41,000 cubic yards; piling, 490,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 1,100,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riprap, 10,000 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies the smaller lock will be used as a flood-sluice for letting water out of the basin. There...
...Cambridge, but this in- come has varied greatly from year to year. A second endowment, smaller than that given by Mr. Coolidge for the individual cash prizes mentioned above, would realize a definite sum with which to purchase cups for the class and University contests, and, in addition, would allow the University debates to be made free to members of the University...
...behalf of the Republican Club of the Institute of Technology, allow me to express through your columns, our appreciation of the kindly feeling of interest and sympathy which Harvard men have shown for us since the unfortunate affair of last Wednesday night. That an evening otherwise so successful should have ended so disastrously is a matter of common regret...
...closure should be adopted by the Senate: (a) A motion shall be in order at any time, setting a time for voting on a bill, which motion shall be decided by a two-thirds vote without debate; (b) the time for the vote shall be extended, if necessary, to allow every opponent of the bill so desiring to have one hour in which to state his objections to the bill." F.W. Catlett, E.C. Johnson, and D.A. McCabe spoke for the Seniors, and M.M. Horblit, I.I. Mattuck, and H.O. Ruby, for the Juniors...