Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly informal spirit has characterized the conference which has been closed to the press in order to allow the invited delegates from public life complete freedom of expression...
Police reissued the warning to all students not to allow local boys to drive their cars to garages for them. The boys usually disconnect the speedometers and go joy-riding, police officials said. One such boy was picked up early this week for getting involved in a free-for-all with a "borrowed...
Hutchins commends a plan of former President Lowell to allow each sport only one game a season, and that one to be with the college's natural rival, as can be seen in England in the cases of Oxford and Cambridge. He declared: "Mr. Lowell's scheme might have the merit of enabling students and the public to work off their seasonal frenzy in one big saturnalia...
...American Landscape," by Elmer Rice, is an intensely interesting play. The dramatist has elected as his theme one which is three fold; first, to how great a degree should a man of illustrious forebears allow himself to be governed by the ethics of his ancestors; second, if faced by circumstances of ebbing health and wealth, how much of his ancient heritage is he morally obliged to pass on to his immediate posterity; and, third, when his family has received the tangible evidence of its historic past, is that evidence to be cherished and held at all cost...
Professor Chafee recommended economic pressure on Germany to allow Jews to emigrate without being stripped of all their property, and said that our immigration quota should be enlarged. In conclusion he stated, "Whenever we meet intolerance in conversation, let's fight it; whenever we meet it in our own hearts, let's fight...