Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peculiar, is it not, that American efficiency and ingenuity must allow such an ugly peril to gain foothold in order that lusty private enterprise might coin more wealth and on the other hand spend thousands of the taxpayers' money to control and fight the dread scourge...
...liquor bill passed by the Massachusetts legislature will not, I hope, set the keynote for liquor legislation after repeal. After giving its sanction to taverns, the bill went on to allow music and dancing in them, and then executed an ingenuous right about face by prohibiting the admission of women. It is useless to comment on a bill so muddled and ridiculous as this; what it reveals about the Massachusetts legislature may be important, but it will obviously be amended before any police agency undertakes the task of its enforcement...
...Will the House allow me," handsomely replied Sir Austen, "to thank the right honorable gentleman for the very handsome way in which he has treated this incident, and to say I hope it will not weaken, but will confirm the friendly relations which should exist between members sitting on opposite sides of the House...
...them. The time has passed when it is possible for anyone to sit back comfortably and spin out a theory of the origin of institutions hoping to gain acceptance for it. Too much anthropological evidence has been gathered, too many facts have been garnered concerning primitive society, to allow the plausibility of any account which omits them. Unfortunately Mr. Fruchs' account is completely innocent of any anthropological data; his social contract is pure hypothesis and the deductions from it are entirely a priori. Worse than this, there is no attempt to work out the theory in detail and to explanation...
...Cambridge police have stated that they will not interfere as long as the demonstration and parade are orderly. There has been no official sanction of the rally, nor has there been any refusal to allow it; it is planned to be an entirely unofficial and spontaneous demonstration of spirit. Several banners and placards have already been placed on some of the Yard dormitories...