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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversations held in Washington it would probably be idle to expect too much from them. Formal discussion for a period of two or three days can scarcely do much to unravel complicated situations that have been years in the making. Both the time element and the general situation hardly allow of more than the presentation on each side of the national position of the statesmen involved in the discussion, and surely do not allow of any thoroughgoing examination of thorny problems followed by an attempt to arrive at an acceptable solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visits of Laval and Grandi Show Inadequacy of Diplomatic Machinery, Emerson Says--Cannot Take Place of League | 11/27/1931 | See Source »

Even so, as the week progressed sensitive General Fournier felt that the populace was not in favor of his expedition. Instantly dismissing the suggestion that feeling would improve if he would move out of the Cafe Napoleon and allow the natives to resume their accustomed seats, he wrote long appeals to the people of Corsica for support, inserted them in all Corsican newspapers. In particular he wanted to know the whereabouts of Corsica's "mastermind," Andre Spada, the bandit chief. His home had been raided; he had fled farther into the mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Generals, Bandits, Nuts | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...recent tendency thus seems to be to allow special rules to the college candidate of special abilities. Such a course allows the student to concentrate on fields of interest, rather than to spread his knowledge over vast areas of unrelated materials. It allows him to enjoy some of the liberal advantages of the new curriculum while he is still at school. If consistency is of any value, Yale too ought to make concessions similar to the ones reported above, for such concessions would be simple extensions of the ideas now to be found in the new course of study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the Strait-jacket | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...strait-jacket a highly intelligent school student is to commit a crime against education: to allow his liberty of study, (not to be confused with freedom from work), is to placate the gods of Wisdom and Learning. It is not hard to see which of the two courses of action Yale should pursue. --Yale Daily News

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the Strait-jacket | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...This stanza is the peculiar handiwork of Tennyson alone. It was thought wise by the authors to allow him space in these columns and by this publicity to repay him in some small way for the debt incurred. Also the idea is a particularly happy one, and it does not lie within the powers of the present authors to improve upon the phraseology. The authors further wish to point out to their readers that the above work will be greatly enhanced if compared with the original poems, which can be purchased at your local dealer or directly from the factory...

Author: By O. E. F. and E. E. M., S | Title: THE CRIME | 11/21/1931 | See Source »

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