Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination will begin at 9.15. The blue books will be distributed at that hour. The papers, however, will be distribution at 9 o'clock to those present. The obvious purpose of this arrangement is to allow 15 minutes extra time before the examination to those who may wish to read over the paper...
...Nicholas Longworth and Connecticut's John Q. Tilson, one of the House's Big Three. As minority floor leader since 1931, he has kept up a steady fight against the New Deal and all its works. Yet he plays national politics according to the rules, does not allow his public partisanship to interfere with his private friendship with Democratic leaders off the House floor. When "Bert" Snell cracks his gavel down next June, Republican conservatives can be sure of the same iron-fisted service he gave in the same post four years ago at Chicago...
Editor Grey was enraged at France's supposed intention of sending French Moroccan troops to police the Rhineland. Cried he, "A typical example of French feminine mentality! . . . Suppose that France had demanded that we should allow niggers and Moors in French uniforms to garrison Margate, Dover, Folkestone, Eastbourne, Seaford, Brighton and Worthing. . . . As a purely ethnological fact one might argue that the fair-haired, blue-eyed Berbers of Morocco, and the Riffs, who are in fact the last remnants of the Teutonic Vandal Kingdom of Northern Africa, are better white men than the little dark scum of Southern France...
...hoped that prospective concentrators in Government will not allow themselves, like the tutors in the department, to be much moved by the Crimson report and editorial. Melvin Levy...
...Prouty went the distance for the Freshmen and pitched fine ball except in the fourth inning, when he weakened sufficiently to allow the Bruins to cross the plate four times. During his eleven innings on the mound he struck out thirteen opponents and allowed only nine hits...