Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sirs: Allow me to reply to L. de Vallombrosa & Evelyne Greig (TIME'S Letters, Dec. 16). I am a French Republican & that means, for the Republic. My politics are those of Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Clemenceau, Poincaire & Doumergue. As a Republican I denounce your Croix de Feu & all other parties of the Right. France has soldiers, mobile guards&policemen & needs no other private armies. I denounce equally the Communists whose ideal Russia, outdoes Capitalism. And I scorn such men as Remain Holland & Aristide Briand, who being the sole internationalists & brothers of men are blinded by their ideals & allow the enemies...
...those students who chose to complete the required course in three years would be treated as a unit and allowed to take five courses each year without extra tuition. They would also be assigned tutors immediately who would have the power to authorize course reductions for their tutees. The objection has formerly been raised that the Freshman Class is too large to allow tutoring but this group would be small enough to enable administration of the plan, it would have an exceptionally small mortality, and it would be more intellectually select than the undimensioned mob which now inhabits the Yard...
Whether progress is provable or not, even praisers of times past would have to admit that the historical novel of today stacks up favorably alongside its peers of yesterday. Though past-partisans might not allow Robert Graves's Claudius books, Alfred Neumann's The Devil, Lion Feuchtwanger's Power and Josephus, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers the palm over such classics as Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Salammbo, critical consensus would be that the modern exponents are obviously better grade than...
...three, four, and sometimes five subjects, each foreign to the other. For example a student may be pursuing at one time courses in English, history, a foreign language and political science. The student will undoubtedly favor one or two of the courses over the others and as a result allow the others to go by the board...
...others, five cases were continued for later hearing, 48 were discharged on the wives' recommendations. Of Elmer Diedrich his wife said, "I allow him to have one drink a day but he takes so long getting that drink I have to go to the tavern after him." Because Diedrich's baby son has the judge's middle name, Jerome, he was discharged. Of himself, Louie Sarna said, "I suffered more than I ever expect, judge, your honor, the shame. My ambition it has always been not to beat my wife. I no do it again." Of Felix...