Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stylish. She knew intuitively when to extend credit and when to collect bills (she once successfully sued the late Jimmy Walker for his wife's unpaid $12,059 balance). She often quite literally sold the clothes off her back to eager customers, but would never allow a woman to buy a dress that seemed unsuitable. Her surplus energy spilled into other businesses, all of them successful: hats, jewelry, antiques, perfumes-even chocolate candy. By last year Hattie Carnegie Inc. was doing a gross business of $7,000,000 a year...
There were indications yesterday that the Student Council would ask tonight that the Faculty not make a decision at tomorrow's meeting, but wait to allow the Council to study student opinion on the subject. Merom K. Brachman '58, Council vice-president, last night asked interested pre-medical students to communicate their opinions to Council representatives so that the Council might gain an understanding of student feeling...
About an equal number of premedical students now concentrate in Biochemical Sciences or Biology. Those concentrating in Biochemical Sciences contend that its discipline permits them to satisfy their basic premedical requirements in biology, chemistry, and physics so as to allow them the greatest latitude in choice of electives...
...allow marriage to curtail their scientific careers, however. Most work for a short time, take time out to raise a family, and then return to their professional fields, often to work as a team with their husbands...
Instead of this blurb, the colleges put out a volume of factual description. How many students of what sex, geographic distribution, economic resources, post-graduation intentions, and ability does a college have? Does the college allow cars, women, drinking, fraternities? How big are classes, what are the academic demands, how many flunk...