Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [Feb. 9] ... it was stated that I refused to allow Mr. Larry Allen, Associated Press Correspondent with the British Mediterranean Fleet, permission to ride on an American bomber in which I traveled from Cairo to the U.S. on the grounds that there was no room...
...pilots for the war and for an enlarged civilian service later on, Congress has decided to enlarge the resent program, Emmons revealed. Although the exact direction that this expansion will take has not yet been determined, it is possible that the scholastic requirements for admission will be relaxed to allow high school students to enroll...
...white Detroiters was that they didn't want Negroes living near them. Their, community was too respectable to allow in such undesirables. In other words, it seems to be quite all right to rant against the Nazis' cruelty of forcing Jews into squalid, European ghettos, but it's nothing at all to whet the old knives, arm yourselves with heavy stones, muster an overwhelming majority of supporters, and then forcibly drive hated Negroes back into their equally-bad American slums. Those Detroit citizens, who scorn the Nazi theory of racial superiority, are at the same time hypocritically and vainly picturing...
...feel unwanted and unheeded at the moment, he should persevere with intelligent and constructive criticism. Such a potent influence on American morals and manners as the movies needs more surveyance than is offered by the public with its latent and incoherent reactions, or by the Hollywood producers who allow commercialism to triumph over integrity and honesty...
...University at war demands a reshuffling in the middle mathematics courses. Scientific training would be greatly facilitated by a uniformity of material and drill, while the time saved by such a reorganization would allow the important material of Math 5a to be included in Math 2, making the former a non-essential for advanced science students, and saving an additional half-year of preparation...