Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of years ago Yale instituted its Scholar of the House program, in which a few high-ranking students study completely on their own during the senior year. Last year Dartmouth instituted a three-semester program which would allow students to take more courses and give them the feeling that college education was not merely a convention that had gone on and would continue in the same ritualized manner decade after decade. Brown is now quite at home in its IC (Identification and Criticism of Ideas) plan, an ingenious scheme of middle-sized seminars for freshmen and sophomores, with reading...
Until the turn of the century, such infants always died. Then came operations to allow feeding (usually by tube) through the abdominal wall into the stomach. Many victims struggled along for years with these makeshifts. About 20 years ago, surgeons got bolder, devised several operations to supply a missing stretch of gullet by stitching a piece of the child's gut in its place. Appallingly complex, these techniques often needed a series of operations spread over a period of years. They could be done only in major medical centers...
OLDER U.S. WHISKY will finally get a crack at luxury markets, long dominated by Scotch (and some Canadian brands), if all goes well. Senate Finance Committee voted 9-2 to allow domestic distillers to hold whisky in tax-free storage up to 20 years (current limit: eight years), and full Congress is expected to approve. Biggest gainer will be Schenley Industries, which holds by far largest stock of whisky older than six years...
...turned to politics from a successful career in the oil business, was a Taft-supporting conservative, a tariff protectionist, a tax expert, and the portrait of a Senator in his look and bearing. His wit was cutting; in a debate he once remarked: "If the distinguished Senator will allow me, I will try to extricate him from his thoughts...
...manages a world-weary yawn even when she feels like yipping for joy. She thanks an Italian seducer who wants to marry her to get a nonexistent dowry. Why? "For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it." Only when she falls in love does she allow herself to lapse into disarming sincerity. "And then, as unexpected as a hidden step, I felt myself actually stumble and fall. And there it was, I was in love with him! As simple as that...