Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that each bell has four or more separate "partials" or overtones in addition to its fundamental note, and when these are not all in tune with each other as well as with those of other bells, a prodigious jangling results. Thus a carillonneur must often rearrange a composition to allow for discords in his family of bells. Nevertheless, on the ancient bells of Alfred last week, Carillonneur Wesson performed a remarkable variety of tunes, ranging from Hail to Thee, Alfred to two movements from a Sonata for Carillon by Teinmerinaus...
When a Philippine plebiscite last spring voted in favor of suffrage for women by a 400,000 to 40,000 majority, only one more wrinkle remained before Filipino women became enfranchised. This was the actual framing of a law to allow them to vote. Last week, the wrinkle was ironed out in characteristic Filipino fashion...
...Southerners are sure that, within the narrow limits they allow, they understand the Negro better than Northerners do. To Northerners the Negro is not a social problem but a minor, hardly noticeable industrial phenomenon. Nevertheless, even dyed-in-the-wool descendants of Lincoln's emancipators sometimes find it a socially embarrassing experience to encounter the emancipated Negro, whether in Harlem or between the covers of a book. Southerners would simply disregard the equalitarian gropings implicit in such novels as These Low Grounds and Their Eyes Were Watching God; Northerners might well find in them some indigestible food for thought...
...visiting foreign-Germans, Stuttgart wore her party dress as all Nazi departments cooperated to give the town an air of plenty. Juicy hams, butter, thick Württemberg sausage spread themselves in butcher-shop windows. The rigid foreign exchange decrees of Reichsbanker Schacht were tossed aside to allow foreign toilet articles and cosmetics to be stocked by Stuttgart drugstores...
...prize fight between Jack Sharkey and Mickey Walker in a baseball park in Brooklyn. The promoters sold exclusive motion picture rights to Rudolph Mayer Pictures. Inc. Pathe News, Inc. installed a camera on a nearby building and made movies of the fight. New York's courts refused to allow Pathe. to distribute or exhibit their films, upheld the exclusive contract of Mayer Pictures...