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Word: allowance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current term," the Adjutant General's office yesterday stated that the order would be interpreted to mean that semester which was in progress on the day on which the order was released. At Harvard, the spring term began just four days too late to allow the deferment of undergraduate reservists until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERC Deferment Edict Does Not Hold Here | 2/9/1943 | See Source »

...allow the gain in industrial output to slump after the war to a figure less of equal to that of pre-war times, we may face many economic complications, including the possibility of a post-war depression, the economics expert said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILLIAMS HAILS WAR INDUSTRY | 2/9/1943 | See Source »

Although League rules allow a team to take ten players on a trip, Brown has been dissatisfied with practice attendance of late, and only nine of his hoopsters will board the train...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Five Hopes to Ambush Dartmouth's Champion Indians | 2/3/1943 | See Source »

...those who have for some time realized that in fact (if not in theory) the Government is allowing an inflation to pay for part of the cost of the war, Prentiss Brown's statement came as no surprise. The critical question, which Brown did not answer, was: what kind of an inflation will the Government allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: What Kind of Inflation? | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...Connie" was built to be a world traveler (on specifications laid down by TWA before the war). Her Wright engines packed more than 8,000 h.p.-how much more the Army would not allow Lockheed to say. Her engineers had built her to span the continent in one hop of eight hours. With a full passenger load (52) she can outspeed a Zero. With any kind of load, she has an astonishing economy of operation: one gallon of fuel to the mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Army & Navy, Jan. 18, 1943 | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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