Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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stars and clusters near the central line of the Milky Way. Hence he reasoned that outer space must also contain an extended cloud of particles, gas or dust Measuring star distances by the strength ot the light they send earthward astronomers have failed to allow for the light's absorption by this cloud...
...account will not change the picture U. S.-history readers have already formed of Lincoln's chubby, pathologically bad-tempered wife, but may add a few particulars to their knowledge. Sensitive to appearances-especially to the appearance she and her lanky husband made together-Mary Lincoln would never allow a photograph to be taken of them as a couple. Her three half-brothers all fought in the Confederate army, giving rise to such rumors of her anti-Union sympathies that Lincoln once felt called upon to testify in person, before a Congressional investigating committee, to her loyalty. When...
Whether it be in Boston or in Alabama, there should be some provision for trying cases subject to emotionalism from an unbiased point of view. If the Fourteenth Amendment which gives right of fair trial to all individuals does not allow such a provision, some change should be made in the Constitution. To make justice possible in such cases, there ought to be a right of appeal for trial in Federal Courts...
...Sullivan '38 president of the Council announced last night that no further arrangements for the debates which the Bank of England Debating Society and the University of Mexico requested late this fall had been made although he added that there was little probability that the University would allow a trip to England if the British society desired. The University of Mexico, however, offered to come to this country for a contest and Sullivan felt that a match with them might be possible...
...provision in the present law compelled the Supreme Court last October to sustain gerrymandering in Mississippi's redistricting. ¶ Heard its first farewell speech from Georgia's "Lame Duck" Lankford. ¶ Passed District of Columbia bills to close local barber shops one day per week and to allow Capitol attaches Congressional automobile tags. ¶ Received from the Appropriations Committee the first supply bill-Treasury & Post Office. Its total, $961,416,597, had been cut $32,912,304 under President Hoover's Budget estimate. Into this measure the House sank its teeth, went seriously to work. ¶ Meanwhile...