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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, after Okinawa's High Court and the Ryukyus legislature refused to interfere, Army Lieut. General James E. Moore, the U.S. High Commissioner, intervened. Acting nominally on an appeal by 24 of Okinawa's 64 mayors, he decreed a change in the assembly's bylaws to allow a no-confidence vote if a simple majority is present. He thoughtfully added a new electoral regulation barring "convicted felons" from holding public office-which effectively barred Senaga from seeking reelection. When the assemblymen gathered at Naha's city hall and voted the mayor out of office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: The General & the Mayor | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...contract for Look Homeward, Angel will allow him to leave the show next June if he wants to. If Perkins decides to quit, he will not lack for employment. One likely job: playing Gene in a Paramount production of the Wolfe novel. Another possibility: bringing to life the bewildered young romantics in the early books of F. Scott Fitzgerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

From Terence, Wycherley took a hint for his chief character, a London rake named Horner, who, to make lust easier, spreads the report that he is impotent. At once husbands contemptuously allow him access to their wives, and soon the secretly gloating Horner has a harem. From Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, Wycherley took his ingenuous young country wife, who is not quite carefully enough guarded by a jealous husband, and who proves as eager a pupil as Horner is a teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Michael C. D. Mac Donald '60 wrote the winning letter that will allow his "great companion" Alexander E. B. Aurum to escort starlet April Olrich on her publicity-seeking tour of Boston on Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER WINS 'APRIL' | 12/7/1957 | See Source »

...example--reveals his philosophical position on such questions as causation and determinism by his interpretation of events. Abstract historical theory, which is frequently based upon analysis of the great chroniclers of history, should be combined in the sophomore year with the introduction to these historians. This plan would then allow the junior concentrator to investigate philosophical problems in terms of source material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Historical Relevance | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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