Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student body is now attempting to have the time of the annual hockey game with Harvard, which is scheduled to be played on the evening before the prom, changed to the afternoon, to allow the Sheffield clubs to have their traditional house dances in the early part of the evening...
Harvard stands ninth in the list of full-time student enrollment, whereas it was only eighth last year. The number of college women has fallen off everywhere, indicating that when a family finds its budget too small to allow for two members at college, the boy is usually sent while the girl remains at home...
...With inexorable certainty the inherent law of Fate will give power into our hands! Therefore do not allow yourselves to be provoked, incited and led astray -he who fails in the last testing days is unworthy to witness the victory...
...before the Notre Dame game, Centre Hawkins had been injured. While standing on the sidelines, teammates had jokingly asked him if he were scouting the team for Notre Dame. Assistant Coach Gordon Campbell heard the jokes, took them seriously, suspected Centre Hawkins of disloyalty. Centre Hawkins had had to allow his home to be searched for "papers," had allowed himself to be held in custody by two private detectives in a cottage at Topango Canyon while the search was made. Finding the suspicions unjustified, Coach Howard Jones apologized to Centre Hawkins in the presence of the Southern California football team...
...been earning a precarious living in the U. S. by lecturing ladies' clubs on the Better Life. Filled with journalistic zeal, H. I. H. wrote to his editor and suggested that he might go out to Fontainebleau to talk to Alfonso, might persuade his former Majesty to allow a transcript of that conversation to be published. He did. The first instalment of the transcription is on U. S. newsstands this week...