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Word: allowance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, thank you. Peter has made a terrific hit with the small fry and they even allow him to ride his own tricycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Network intends very seriously to allow no advertising contract to alter its chief purpose--that of supplying its listeners with good, and with listenable programs," the executive board announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Network Broadcasts Advertisements Today | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

With the argument over the use of the butterfly arm movement scarcely having sunk into obscurity, another controversy concerning the ancient breast stroke has been started by the proposal of Matt Mann, coach of the famous University of Michigan swimming teams, to allow the fishtail log drive in breast-stroke competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ulen for New Breaststroke Kick Only as Special Event | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

This was followed by a really staggering warning from Anglophobe Dr. Sun Fo, President of Chungking's Legislative Yuan and son of China's George Washington, Sun Yatsen. Said Dr. Sun: "If the United States and Britain intend to allow Japan free rein in the Far East while they are finishing off Hitler, as seems to be indicated in recent speeches by [Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty A. V.] Alexander* and Knox, there is grave doubt in Chungking as to the wisdom of China's continuing to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Dissention among the Allies | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...making, President Conant has written a brilliant war-time report. From the "first asset is the Faculty" clause to the recommendation for an over-all survey of skilled manpower, it is the work of an intelligent liberal thinking in down-to-earth terms. Space limitations will not allow a full discussion of the report in one editorial, but some of the more provocative suggestions deserve mention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Educational M-Day | 1/21/1942 | See Source »

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