Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brihuega, and Rightist General Franco and his German and Italian backers were bound to make that defeat good last week. More than prestige was at stake in the attack on Bilbao. Bilbao captured should give the Rightists control of the Biscay coast, remove serious military pressure on their rear, allow thousands of men to be transferred to the siege of Madrid. Most important of all it would bring Franco and his Nazi and Fascist backers the most valuable iron deposits in Spain...
...private collection of French masters assembled by the late Lillie P. Bliss. Most popular recent acquisition: The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali's famed Surrealist panel of limp watches on a dead tree. Last week preliminary plans were filed by Architect Philip Goodwin for a new building to allow more of this permanent collection to remain on view while the loan shows continue...
Murray M. Day, Gustavus Ober, and Brooke Lee of the Princeton, affirmative team vainly advanced the contention that neutrality, when strictly applied, has and will keep a country out of war. Such a policy would allow reciprocal trade with other non-belligerent nations but would cut out all war profits...
...concentrators primarily interested in taking snap courses, along with others who really intend to study. Whatever the policy of the instructors may be, Geography 1 should be regularly open to Freshmen. The subject-matter of this introductory course covers parts of several other highly specialized fields. Admitting Freshmen would allow prospective concentrators to try their hand at Geography, and would fill a need, felt by many others, for a non-technical course covering several sciences...
...dinner last week he was given a check for $2,000. Catholicism was represented, unofficially, by his good friend Judge John McGoorty, who, though a devout Catholic, is often called "assistant pastor of Peoples Church." Spokesman for Jewry was popular Rabbi Mann, who rejoiced that Adolf Hitler declined to allow Preston Bradley in Germany last year. Prayed Rabbi Mann, in Hebrew: "May you go on, dear Preston, from strength to strength. May your dust continue to serve even unto your 100th year...