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Word: allowable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody was sure who started the rough stuff. The important difference was that Army did not allow its own share in the Donnybrook to take its mind off such chores as blocking and pass defense. And slowly Army's class began to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scuffling Cinderellas | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Promptly at 9:05 p.m. the chairman got things off to an early start. He introduced himself. This took 20 minutes: time to allow the hall to fill, and for him to enumerate his attributes. The most important of these was that he was born in East Cambridge, was brought up in East Cambridge, went to school in East Cambridge, and still loves East Cambridge and what East Cambridge stands for. In Cambridge this is all good...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 11/9/1949 | See Source »

...urging support of proposed legislation which would set up a releasing beard to allow outside work by inmates. Dr. Van Waters said 218 women saved $18,000 received as wages for indenture employment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Waters Protests Limit On Rehabilitation Program | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...Cannot Allow." The Stettinius excuse for F.D.R.'s tragic weakness on the Polish issue is that the Russians were already in Poland. From a statesman, such reasoning seems to applaud the bankruptcy of statesmanship. Stalin was capable of straighter talk on the subject. Said he at Potsdam: "A freely elected government in any of these [eastern European] countries would be anti-Soviet, and that we cannot allow." U.S. readers may wonder why the U.S. delegation could not have guessed that as well as Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yalta Revisited | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...compared with Harvard's "all you can eat" policy, Princeton offers milk only twice a day and does not allow seconds on meat. But Princetonians who feel they are being starved into submission frequently bluff their way into two different dining halls during a meal-a practice which both University and Howard Johnson's ignore. Unlike the name checking system at Harvard, a Commons identification card is used at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princetonians Eat Johnson's "Home Food" | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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