Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot House there exist certain conditions which allow us to operate the cafeteria at a cost considerably lower than would be possible at Adams House," said Westcott. He explained that at the present grill it was possible to use men otherwise employed in the Eliot dining halls, thus reducing labor costs...
...such as opium, will be thrashed out by five o'clock this afternoon in the various sessions. Though no Junior Leaguers the lasses of the congress are socially-minded enough to anticipate eagerly the dinner and ball at the Continental Hotel which will reward two days of hard work, allow the billets passed last night to fructify
...have been politically unwise as well as ethically negligent: the threatened general strike in Milwaukee this Monday is evidence in point. To hand over the balance of power to the trade unions would have been economically dangerous and obviously unfair to our captains and lieutenants of industry. And to allow the courts the ultimate word in these troubles would be, as it has been, quite inimical both to the workers and to the speedy adjustment of difficulties; their record along this line, what with yellow-dog contracts and injunctions, exhibited, to say the least, very doubtful impartiality...
Will you please allow this writer to offer a few rather tardy comments...
...doors and changing the lights, it turns on all the lights, it turns on all the lights inside the station. This is accomplished by an inside alarm system which arouses the sleeping fire-fighters. But the firemen are not awakened without sufficient reason, for a selective device refuses to allow the inside alarm to ring unless the call comes from within the district covered by the Central Fire Station...