Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London press has long inveighed against this new freedom, quoting vicars in denunciation of pubs which allow women to buy drinks, hinting at the iniquities of dormitories for the women's military services, prophesying the dangers awaiting wives who are separated for the first time from their husbands. Said the Daily Mail: "It will surprise many people to learn that this country has the worst record for bigamy of any European nation." The Daily Herald reported it was not drunkenness, but love, which caused men to talk and write of impending military operations; the Herald prayed for an artist...
Democracies, according to Kohn, are much freer from corruption than dictatorships, for dictatorships will not allow people to say what they want and publicize corrupt officials. "The best way to destroy corruption is to publicize it," said Kohn...
...confusion in Washington is equalled only by the maze of conflicting and overlapping programs on the college plane. Though deferment through enlistment in one of the Reserve Corps was set up originally to allow men to complete their education as quickly as possible, Army-Navy competition for manpower has led them to dangle four and even five year deferment before a student who is needed as soon as he can complete his training...
...meantime WMC is getting its plans all set, hoping against hope that it will not really become necessary to get as tough as its proposed law will allow. It plans to tread softly-but it wants to carry a big enough stick...
Most U.S. termites eat deadwood. They have the almost unique power of digesting cellulose. Hence, unlike most animals, they have little natural competition to check their increase. Most insects depend upon a seasonal food supply, and their life cycles allow them only brief intervals to feed and breed. Termites almost never stop eating...