Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assist. In London, the Board of Trade pondered the occupational requirements of physicians, decided to allow them four pockets in their waistcoats once more...
...skip for a moment to the affairs that really matter, my roommates and myself would like to request, somewhat wist fully, that student officers with pretty wives would declare the sidewalk in front of Morris Hall out of bounds. It seems that many of these officers allow their women folk to wait for them in front of our window and it is rather disconcerting to serious minded students to see so many well turned ankles gambolling around in front of them. Pulling the shades doesn't work because Rusty Mueller simply can't stand to have the shades down when...
...Burned areas should have new skin as soon as possible, but not pinch grafts (obtained by lifting bits of skin on a pin point and cutting them free with a scalpel), which seldom look well and often allow the surface to contract - the very faults grafting is supposed to remedy...
...Navy will stick to the dive-bomber, which has unquestionably been its most potent air weapon. Its contention: the dive-bomber can dive steeply, even vertically against a target, thus has tremendous accuracy; the fighter bomber has to go in at a shallower angle, thus must allow for a looping trajectory in the fall of the bomb. The pilot must also drop his bomb and pull out at higher altitudes to keep from hitting the ground, or water, or risk pulling his plane apart in a violent recovery. The next twelve months should show which service is right...
...Freshmen will end their season at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday with a race against a Tech Freshman crew in order to allow the Engineers to get their letters. No crew letters will be awarded at Harvard this fall...