Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complaint directed against questions on the ground that they are too general. The English 72 examination reprinted in part elsewhere on this page affords a striking example of this last type of examination. There is nothing petty in any of the required questions. All are manifest attempts to allow the student to tell what he knows about the five poets studied in the course...
...questions asked are silent testimony of the desire of the officials in charge to allow men to show what they did know instead of what they did not know. But the length of the examination cut short (because of the purely physical limitations of writing) the answers of those who were eager to push beyond the obvious and often repeated facts...
...cook and carrying a sanguine daubed wooden razor, was none other than Edward Windsor. No newcomer to the Equator is H.R.H. He first crossed the Line in 1920, crossed again last year on his interrupted African hunting trip which he is now completing, and was once incautious enough to allow himself to be festively photographed in a blonde wig, a most effeminate dressing gown, a palpably false bust...
...clear perspective of hindsight he saw that it was not only wrong for him as an official of the Chinese Nationalist Government to have paid a camel-load of silver dollars to a bandit, but also that it would be morally wrong to allow the bandit to continue to exist. Governor Hu firmly resolved to exterminate the fellow...
...probation has the effect of establishing a standard of satisfaction which is likely to prove the limit of the average athlete's ambition, what effect would the abolition of probation have? In the absence of any other check there is every reason to suppose that the same athlete would allow himself to slip even lower than the standard established by probation. If it were proposed to dismiss him, still there must be some criterion on which to judge and he must in all fairness be warned. Probation requirements, subject to the elastic judgment of the authorities, supply the criterion...