Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real-estate office in the back. Earp removed the outdoor privy a couple of years ago, but the mule shoe that Father Truman nailed over the door the day Harry was born is still there. Earp explained: "I cut $5,000 off the price, if the state would allow the placement of a bronze plaque in the living room as a memorial to my mother and father...
...refund the fee (less 1 guilder per treatment for the first six weeks) if, after a year, there is no "clearly visible" growth of hair. The procedure is to brush the patient's scalp, apply the secret fluid, then brush the scalp again. Van Rooijen will not allow an analysis of his formula by Dutch medical men, who are skeptical of his claims.* If the doctors want to see results, says the barber sharply, let them look at his customers' heads...
...cannot allow this misconseption of their statement to stand. President Conant, both as one of the "20" and as the head of an institution which has always meant academic freedom, cannot let this misconception stand. He must make a statement, in Harvard's name as well as his own, contradicting the impression left by the press. We are fundamentally opposed to the President's position that Communists per se are unfit as teachers, but we are confident that his ideals are completely incompatible with those of the "Little Dies" committees. We are confident he would oppose any action resembling...
...more men like David Lilienthal--men this country desperately needs--if any government worker must expect attacks on his personal principles and his work at any time by Congressional committees. It doesn't make much sense to deplore the lack of intelligent civil servants and at the same time allow the McKellars and Hickenloopers to attack whomever they please whenever they please. The choice is between a government responsible to the nation and a government responsible to a few wilful men. The debate is apparently undecided now; the issue is one that we cannot afford to sidestep...
Then he was rushed off the ship to begin a hectic churning through Manhattan's radio and television studios (he appeared on ten shows in eight days). Missionary Salau (rhymes with allow) is a feature writer's dream. His father was a headhunter, he wears odd clothes, he obligingly describes the wonders of Western civilization in pidgin English. Said he of an elevator ride: "Time me go inside one fella room. Missus he sock 'im one fella button. This bockis him get up. Belly belong me like come...