Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent the suit of 19 utilities against TVA from going to trial in the lower courts. It had granted appeals on two suits against PWA power loans to municipalities, thereby keeping $50,000,000 of such loans tied up. It had refused the Government's request to allow Electric Bond & Share's challenge of the Public Utility Holding Company Act to be appealed directly to the Supreme Court without going through a Circuit Court of Appeals. It had done nothing when a judge in Pennsylvania had enjoined Government attorneys from bringing suit in New York against the Aluminum...
Final record notes that "After the rejection of various schemes, the Society at length concluded to allow the Natural History Society and Institute of 1770 to select what books they wanted, and to give the rest to the College Library...
...obvious solution is for a different student to answer each question. This would allow each man to devote himself entirely to one aspect of the course, and even to do a bit of research in it. He would write as many answers to that question as there were men in the class, and pass each paper on to the man scheduled to do the next...
...Humphrey Bogart). The likelihood that Ward will enable him to accomplish this by repeating his hotel-room knockout is endangered when Nick suspects his protege of an intrigue with Fluff. Now intent on revenging himself on his own fighter, Nick sends Ward into the ring with instructions calculated to allow the champion, whose manager has been informed of the plan, to win. Halfway through the fight, Fluff and Nick's sister (Jane Bryan), with whom Ward is actually in love, convince Nick of his error. Nick then reverses his signals, Ward wins the title, and Nick and Turkey settle...
...eastern Pennsylvania in 1742. The women wore black bonnets, plain dresses, the men long beards and soup-bowl haircuts. Unabashedly, men obeyed St. Paul's admonition to "greet one another with a holy kiss." Only problem of import before the Dunkards last week was whether or not to allow radios in their homes, a matter which has come up every year since 1925. Though liberal Dunkards have succeeded in lifting restrictions against such "vanities" as automobiles, telephones and lace curtains, church members who keep musical instruments (e.g. radios) are denied the Dunkard communion table. The radio prohibition was once...