Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such supervision over U. S. industry is naturally least acceptable to the South, whose industrial platform is that its climate and general living conditions diminish living costs and hence make equitable a lower wage rate than the North. Although the provisions of the bill were flexible enough to allow for regional differentials, such differentials might well be too small to suit Southerners. Of the Rules Committee's 14 members, four are Republicans, five Southern Democrats. When the House Labor Committee turned the bill over to them last August, it soon became apparent that they had no intention of putting...
Since 1932 two presidents of the University of Oregon have resigned. Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, who took the job in 1926, quit six years later. Last June his successor, frail, scholarly Dr. Clarence Valentine Boyer, said his poor health would not allow him to continue as president...
...refusal of the University to allow Harvard's major football games to be broadcast next fall deserves serious and careful attention. By refusing to permit this broadcasting, the University is deliberately throwing an obstacle in the path that it had so wisely chosen to follow. These broadcasts would bring in a substantial sum each year which could be added to the present Athletic Endowment Fund. The addition of this money to the Endowment Fund is not to be lightly rejected, as Harvard's other major and minor sports cannot depend upon football's gate receipts forever. The sooner that athletics...
...real art of waxing comes in combining various forms of waxes. For instance, on a long tour the snow at the starting point is fairly wet, but a few hundred feet above it is freezing. For this one can put on an original coating of "medium" allow it to cool, and cover it with a very thin coating of "mixed," the "mix" will glide well over the dry snow at the beginning of the run down, and will wear off soon after reaching the wet snow, then the undercoating of "medium" will serve its purpose...
...able to save certain of his crops from insects and other pests by the use of poisonous and semi-poisonous chemicals, or with the universities and hotels who must buy such impure supplies; the blame lies with the governmental agencies, who, ignoring their duty to protect the public health, allow tainted food supplies to reach the ultimate consumer...