Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North and South House committees called for a boycott of the assembly earlier this month, charging that the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU) controls the assembly and asking for a referendum to allow all undergraduates to vote on the issue of political parties in the assembly...
...allow such places to pass into alien or developing hands would indeed confirm the death of a nation's soul...
Bowersock submitted his tutorial reforms to the Faculty last Tuesday for a vote, but Faculty members agreed not to vote to allow for more discussion. (In facultese this is called "laying over...
...Three Sisters. Anton Chekhov's masterpiece hits the Loeb Mainstage this week in a new translation and what director Peter Sellars calls a "realistic" treatment. "I've tried to open Chekhov up, and allow as many of the meanings through as possible," Sellars says, and the new translation by Maria Markhof-Belaev and him should go far toward that end--it's much more literal than the Three Sisters you've seen before, more faithful to Russian idiom and Chekhov's word patterns...
...Chinese, a high point of Blumenthal's trip was his speech at the opening banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. To their surprise, the Treasury Secretary began with seven sentences of Chinese before saying, also in Chinese: "Now allow me please to continue in English." At the end he offered a six-sentence toast in Chinese, concluding with the traditional Chinese equivalent of bottoms up, kan-pei. Chinese officials were clearly honored. It was, they said, the first time in memory that a foreign dignitary had used their language in a speech...