Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Semanticists were worried about the social congregations on dormitory steps because, as one of them put it, "the function of entries is to allow people to go in and out--see Webster's International Dictionary, 1946 edition, page...
...Agreed, in a Senate-House conference, to split the difference between the mutual-security bills and allow the Administration to spend or commit $4,014,000,000 (it had asked for $4.9 billion) on the foreign-aid programs this year...
...regard to the rest of the summer term, Wood said it would be financially impossible this year to extend the weekend hours of either library. The personnel and other costs of keeping a place like Lamont open just will not allow it under the present scale of tuition charges, he added...
...Dashes. Duke's Dave Sime broke from the starting blocks in his trial heat, took four strides and collapsed onto the track, a flame of pain burning in his groin. The U.S. Olympic Committee had waived a sound rule, but on sound sentiment, to allow Sime to compete in the 200 meters after the same pulled muscle kept him from qualifying at the N.C.A.A. trials. But Sime could not even finish the 100, and slamming his fist against a locker-room door later, he moaned: "What shall I do now? What?" Abilene Christian's Bobby Morrow, perhaps...
...Gibbs picture, it made the leap from medieval toward renaissance portraiture. The captain, who painted it himself, thought in terms of shapes not pattern, action not stillness, and character not spirit. Almost nothing is known about Smith, but his picture presents much more evidence than historians generally allow. The canvas makes plain that he had sailed the sea, that he had seen European pictures, and that he was a stern man, thoughtful of death. The poem under the pictured skull reads, in part...