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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakened tutorial system has meant increased reliance on the focal method of educating large numbers of students. While it is perfectly true that Professor X can as well speak to 1,000 students as to 100, and while educational television may allow him to lecture to half the United States, these are not solutions to the central problem. Building larger lecture halls and more Houses will permit the College to expand, but at the expense of many inestimable values of student-teacher relationships...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: The Harvard House System | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

...Seaton sliced the coops' rate increase to 27½%, suggested other revenue by increasing rates on power supplied to private power companies. He also demanded that a 30-year contract between Southwestern Power and the Reynolds Metals Co., fashioned by Truman Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, be renegotiated to allow higher rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Look at Interior | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Delighted as they were by Britain's change of heart, toward Europe, many OEEC nations were far from delighted by British insistence that only industrial goods should move freely within the Free Trade Area. (This would allow Britain to continue giving "imperial preference" to the agricultural products which make up nearly 90% of her imports from the Commonwealth.) A Free Trade Area that excluded agriculture, warned Jens Otto Krag of agricultural Denmark, would be "quite unacceptable." Eccles had been quite candid about why the farmer would still be protected: "Agriculture is never far from the minds of the politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Decisive Offer | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...defiance of the ban. To top things off, on the very evening Sevareid was edited off the air, a different CBS deskman in Manhattan passed Ed Murrow's blunter criticism of the State Department's policy: "What it comes down to is that we must refuse to allow ourselves to know about China, because if we did, we would obtain the release of ten American prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mirage | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...show language. Many of the cars at Daytona contained special power packages (superchargers, fuel injection, etc.) that pushed their motors up to maximum performance and all were assembled and tuned with a care given to no car sold off the showroom floor. Detroit's assembly-line mechanics always allow for a certain amount of "slop tolerance"; Daytona's setup experts allowed almost no tolerance at all. They had thousands of valve springs from which to choose sets in perfect balance, hundreds of carefully matched pistons as spares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carfair | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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