Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carnegie Corporation grant to Radcliffe will allow Barbara Ward Jackson, noted British economist, to review various economic assistance programs, the Corporation announced yesterday. Lady Jackson is scheduled to lecture at the University this spring...
...have a widow with nine children. No one ever came for her." Pire's idea was to build special "European villages" for the D.P.s-not a separate community, a potential ghetto, but "a neighborhood glued onto a city." Often he ran into ugly resistance: one Swiss village refused to allow him to start a home for aged refugees because it did not want to enlarge its cemetery; a German burgomaster got a letter threatening dire consequences should...
...from behind the veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small voice from the past. Lawyer Osman Nuri Lermioglu, a Democratic Deputy from Trabzon on the Black Sea, presented Parliament with a draft bill that would allow a Turk legally to have two wives, but only if the first wife were ill or sterile. To prove that he was no Terrible Turk with a passion for bringing back the good old days of male supremacy. Deputy Lermioglu hastily explained that he had personally cleared the bill with...
...only fair to say that by all rights it should have won today. Its fatal deficiency was its forwards' failure to get off really good shots in front of the Crimson nets. On many occasions, Yale would have good scoring opportunities and hesitate just long enough to allow the varsity fullbacks to break up the attack. When the Elis did get a good shot off, Bagnoli would make a fantastic save and the same procedure would start all over again...
...minimum grades will be necessary for Honors, and the department will allow non-Honors juniors to petition for tutorial on a trial basis. White said that the new policies have been adopted both in accordance with the Committee an Educational Policy's recent proposals and in order to "weigh the student's record in a judicious manner rather than an automatic...