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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After being vested with his new powers, Dictator Azana ominously declared: "We shall allow Catholics to hold all the meetings they desire . . . so long as they obtain the Government's permission first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Azana's Jaw | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...salaries of teachers shall be paid by the Central Board, for example, still enables local boards to keep the standard of teachers high; while the provision that the Central Board may reduce the promised 50 per cent of total local expenses in the case of schools which allow overcrowding of classes, unsanitary conditions, or other causes of inefficiency, helps to maintain a high standard of school administration. The advance of school age which Mr. Fisher contemplated has not yet been realized, but night schools, vocational schools and other special classes for children of over 14 years of age, help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford Professor, Formerly at Princeton, Compares English and American Education | 10/28/1931 | See Source »

...relief it is not for the colleges to object and point out that such a duty is not within their province. They can, however, refuse to comply with the suggested methods for raising money if these methods contradict their educational policy. Harvard has done this thing in refusing to allow its football team to play in any post-season charity game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE AND UNEMPLOYMENT | 10/28/1931 | See Source »

...board chairman. He married Alicia Patterson, daughter of the publisher of the New York Daily News, at the age of 22. In 1928, a year later, they separated, were divorced last year. He continued steeplechasing, flying, helped develop swanky Arlington Park Race track, interests with which he did not allow his connection with the Merchandise Mart (Marshall Field's wholesale branch) gravely to interfere. Last winter, aged 26, he took to wife Ella de Treville Snelling of the Boston Snellings, a smart horsewoman and fancy ice-skater. She made him give up steeplechasing. Last week James Simpson, Jr. made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: North Shore Scion | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Early next morning, while the loyal subjects slept off their headaches, King Prajadhipok was up with his eyes open, planning a new law to allow the citizens of Bangkok, capital of his absolute kingdom, to elect their own municipal officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Opened Eyes | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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