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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking in opposition to the proposals at a State House committee hearing, Henry M. Leen, an attorney representing the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and Boston College, said that the bill would allow local zoning appeal boards arbitrary power to block church and school building plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planners Ask Zoning Power Over College | 3/7/1959 | See Source »

Will you be good enough to allow me to correct two misapprehensions which have arisen from the recent CRIMSON story about plans for next year's college-wide Charity Drive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMBINED CHARITIES | 3/4/1959 | See Source »

...Flamborough); in Glastonbury, England. An icily patrician figure with dark eyebrows and a white, pointed beard, Laurence Housman described himself as "the most censored playwright in England-but the most respectable." His work was morally impeccable, but the British censor, following the letter of the law, would not allow him to present on the stage either the Holy Family (Bethlehem) or a recent monarch (prodded by Edward VIII, censorship was finally lifted). In the U.S. there were no objections. Victoria Regina, starring Helen Hayes, ran for 604 performances on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Britain's vague pornography law, which gives any constable the right to seize books or have booksellers prosecuted if in his own judgment a book is obscene. Under a bill before Parliament since 1955, introduced by Author and Labor M.P. Roy Jenkins, the law would be modified to allow prosecution only if a book as a whole, rather than in individual passages, is judged obscene, would also allow the defense to summon expert witnesses on literary merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lolita in Tunbridge Wells | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...allow local students to live on campus without going into a House, Dudley, which used to be completely non-residential, has been offering more residential opportunities for its members each year. By the Fall, 77 places will be available for Dudley House members to room on campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Co-operative House Will Open in September | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

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