Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college schedule for this year was laid out on Navy specifications of three 16-week terms a year. Dean Buck arranged for one week in between terms in order to allow a vacation at Christmas, whereas colleges such as Yale get no Christmas week because of ten-day between term vacations...
...Bolivia-Paraguay treaty would be a smarting defeat for her "free-trade area." Free trade with big Argentina was one thing. Free trade among little neighbors was quite another. Sore point was the threatened pipeline which would bring Bolivia's landlocked oil to the Paraguay River and allow it to compete, locally at least, with Argentina...
...disposed to end all labor difficulties in the country. ... I will not allow any action by elements of dissolution and agitation which in the majority of cases are . . . aliens who do not know how to respect my country...
...anti-capitalists but we will not allow capital to dominate us. ... Foreign capital is mistaken if it believes that it can dominate the national Argentine spirit. ... If the gentlemen with money believe that we are going to fall they are wrong...
When a choreographer has achieved a really distinguished design, ballet dancers hand it down for generations. Choreographers have often experimented with systems of notation (like musical notes) which would allow them to preserve their designs in writing. But, thus far, the preservation of great pieces of choreography has depended on word-of-mouth precept and bodily example passed on from dancer to dancer...