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Word: allowance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recommendation number two is for a Hockey rink to be built on Soldiers Field. Figuring that gate receipts would pay for upkeep once the original costs were footed, the committee calls the advantages of such a rink obvious. It would allow longer and easier practices for the college teams. It would allow a full program of intra-mural hockey; it would provide for indoor track meets and would be used to house the increasing crowds that are coming to Cambridge to watch basketball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Advocates Compulsory Athletic Fee for Upperclassmen | 3/26/1937 | See Source »

...possible future trouble-maker was tagged on to the Bill in the form of an amendment which would allow teachers to retract the oath they had taken when the law was in force, by appearing before the person who had administered it to them, and filing their retraction at the State House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Passes Oath Repeal Bill Finally by 16-14 Vote | 3/26/1937 | See Source »

...years ago Dr. Gustaf Stromberg of Mt. Wilson Observatory, an able cosmologist who wears clothes like a janitor's and plays a radio while doing telescope work, evolved a theory which would allow solar systems to be much more frequent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planets from Nova? | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...purpose of these sessions is to allow executives to withdraw from day-to-day administration, to investigate special problems and to secure a broader perspective of their field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 EXECUTIVES WILL GO TO SUMMER SCHOOL | 3/17/1937 | See Source »

...with Michael, a member of the same company. Michael was dazzlingly handsome but not much of a ladies' man, and not a very good actor except in certain limited parts. He was pleased with Julia's adoration, accepted as much of it as his careful nature would allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Actress | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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