Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessarily immediately fatal. There is a continual flow of spinal fluid into the brain cavity, and hydrocephalus is caused when there is an obstruction, bringing about a backing up of the fluid in the brain cavity. We will have to operate to form a by-pass to allow resumption of the free flow of the fluid. Such an operation is dangerous, of course, but the disease is fatal in only about 25% of the cases...
...Mahoney as his successor, a group of Wyoming Republicans rose up to question the Governor's legal right to make the appointment. Wyoming law requires a special election if a Senate seat becomes vacant more than a year before the next general election, but allows the Governor to fill the vacancy if Congress is in session. Senator Kendrick died 52 hours outside the one-year period and Congress was not sitting. Therefore, it was argued, a special election was necessary. Republican hard-shells promptly got out a mandamus to force Governor Miller to set a day for the voting...
...dean's office showing permission to leave early to gain travelling time. The exam is scheduled for Friday at 11 o'clock, and in order that students who live far from Cambridge might be able to get home by Christmas and still not cut the exam, Professor Merk will allow his pupils to write the test at home. When the examination is completed in one hour, no more and probably no less, with no assistance under the usual conditions, it will be mailed in to the college and corrected...
...When gate receipts fall off to the extent to which they declined last fall, either the Corporation should allow us to assess the students for the use of our buildings and equipment or should aid us from the general funds of the University." This statement in Mr. Bingham's first report to President Conant reveals the state of mind to which a prolonged and relentless budgetary deflation has brought the officials of the Athletic Association. Coached virtually in the terms of an ultimatum, it is a declaration that the B.A.A. has reached the end of its rope, that the process...
...tutees, the only solution would be the creation of a special board in every department to set the examinations in the manner that the Senior divisionals are set at present. These examinations, coming at the end of the year, would contain a great number of alternative questions to allow for differences in preparation. There would be no other tests or quizzes during the year, unless required by tutors in individual cases...