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Word: allowance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lecture is a terrifying method when you're not inured to it, and it is equally useless to deny that course work can be harrowing, especially in a jazzed-up Summer Session. Luckily, however, the instructors in Freshman courses realize that fact and will have intelligence enough to allow for it. Just remember that if the stuff becomes too much for you, go to your adviser or your instructor-that's what they're there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: " . . . With Fear and Trembling" | 6/25/1942 | See Source »

...views on religion. Last week, nearly 150 years later, within a cobblestone's throw of Independence Hall, he was officially tossed aside all over again. A Philadelphia park commission decided that Tom Paine smelled like an atheist, was not 100% acceptable to all Philadelphians. So it refused to allow his admirers to set a statue of him in Fairmount Park. Tom Paine's pamphlets included The Age of Reason ("The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately"); The Crisis ("These are the times that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...decision to enlist was brought about by the ruthless attack the Japs made upon our country, my country. In some puny way I may be able to help. . . . We must not, we will not, allow them to take away the freedom, the liberty, the things we hold dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Sudden Death | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Nipples. Babies must still be fed. WPB decided to allow some of its rubber hoard to be used for nipples. But smaller nipples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Patterns | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...Eliot House this year shows that group instruction in the Houses is feasible. A tutor whose 28 men were arranged into groups of four, would have his time cut by three-quarters and the University would save an equal amount of money. If carried out immediately this program would allow the repeal of the unfortunate ruling on summer tutorial and the continuance of full tutorial in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education Under Fire | 5/20/1942 | See Source »

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