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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Troopers in the U. S. and two crazy colored people, with a Northern education, took place. This is certainly one time that TIME has made a gross misstatement, as those burning bodies were protected by members of this same body of men until the fire cooled sufficiently to allow them to be turned over to the undertaker. Perhaps TIME can answer why those bodies showed only slight charring from the waist to the shoulders, although other portions of the bodies were completely burned. We poor guessers think perhaps steel vests were protecting those bodies. Also why tear gas bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...held by the syndicate, which is a polite word for pool. President Markin's interest in the pool is 6,500 shares. Last August the pool agreement, which has elaborate provisions to keep the two members from chiseling each other, was extended for five years and broadened to allow trading in securities of other taxi or allied companies, including Chicago Yellow Cab and Parmelee Transportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Downtown | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...courses in Japanese and Chinese are grouped in a department, it will be possible for men to obtain advanced degrees, and to follow a plan of graduate study in those departments. It is partly to allow this, partly because it is felt that the history of the next few years will demonstrate the necessity of study of the Orient, that the new Division was proposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL TONGUES UP TO CORPORATION | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

...number of tutors could be reduced under this plan. Further, all professors in every department should be required to take care of a few of the more promising tutees, inasmuch as these older men, theoretically, would make the best tutors and would stimulate students to greater study. This would allow for a further reduction in the number of faculty men, a lighter burden on each man, and higher salaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE TO HARVARD? | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

...guaranteed by longer appointments. All tutors should be given a preliminary contract guaranteeing two years of work; at the conclusion of this period they should either be dismissed or given a five year, or longer, appointment. This would remove entirely the insecurity which plagues tutors at present and would allow them adequate time to prove their worth. At the end of this second appointment, when tutors would be between 30 and 40, they should be finally dismissed or advanced to higher positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE TO HARVARD? | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

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