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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further fact is that the American citizen does not like this. . . Is it not utterly ridiculous to consider any type of legislation whatsoever which will allow this deplorable alliance with Japan to continue? Why do not the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee make short work of each and every proposal which does not have the mechanism TO STOP THIS COUNTRY FROM ARMING JAPAN? . . . Despite public statements to the fact that we are no longer shipping bombing planes to Japan, informed persons know that other types of planes can be shipped, that airplane parts cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...years old before its Representatives dared to vote themselves money for clerk hire. Not until 1898 did they allow their office helpers a full year's pay ($1,200). Now each may have two secretaries on the Government payroll at no more than $3,900 for one, $5,000 for the pair. Each Senator is entitled to five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Scared Cats | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...indicating that the galaxies are retreating in all directions.* For them, the apparent velocity is roughly proportional to the distance. But among the nearest galaxies, this ratio does not hold. The Milky Way appears to be approaching some, receding from others. To isolate this motion, Dr. Hubble had to allow for and discount the sun's own movement within the Milky Way-since he was perforce using the solar system as an observation station. After ten years of accumulating data, he gave it as his opinion last week that the Milky Way is traveling among its neighbor galaxies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Many Motions | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Alter the capital stock and excess profits taxes so as to allow annual declaration of stock values, and three-year carry-overs of losses against profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Strangled Rabbit | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet, to dehydrate their brains and allow a greater volume of blood within their skulls. Within two months, all but one of the patients were completely free from attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exercise Cure | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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