Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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REFERENCE "PERU CONTINUES TO FIGHT ECUADOR" TIME, SEPT.1, ALLOW ME TO CONVEY YOU MY APPRECIATION FOR IMPARTIAL UNABRIDGED ACCOUNT DEPLORABLE EVENTS AGAINST CONTINENTAL SOLIDARITY GOOD NEIGHBORLINESS WHICH HAS JUSTLY ALARMED OUR CONTINENT. ECUADOR CONTINUED BEING SUBJECT UNPROVOKED AGGRESSIONS BY PERU'S ARMED FORCES ALONG WHOLE 600-MILE FRONTIER NOTWITHSTANDING TRUCES JULY 26 AND 31 THROUGH GOOD OFFICES UNISTATES, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL. TIME'S TRUTHFUL STORY VIVIDLY PAINTS PERU'S INVASION AND BLITZ METHODS USED FOR OCCUPATION WHOLE PROVINCE OF PEACEFUL DEMOCRATIC ECUADOR...
Nobody knows exactly how many students will sign their way through Memorial Hall in the two days of registration still to come, but most estimates allow for at least a 10 per cent drop in last year's enrollment and place the total around the 7,000 mark. The Law School, which registered last Monday, is expected to suffer the greatest loss of any branch of the University--with last year's figure of 1,248 predicted to shrink...
Because of the military situation and the increasing popularity of science courses, the competition routine this year has been cut down a great deal, and two days off each week are to be given all Freshman candidates to allow for Military and Naval Science, and for other science course laboratory periods...
...little fireball reformer just didn't know how to relax and have a good time on his vacation. He kept his assistant and his private secretary busy day & night (living at the Rosemary Inn near by they were losing money; Government expense accounts allow by statute only $5 per day). He answered heavy daily mail from Washington, talked long distance two to four times daily with his colleagues, wrote a magazine article on the gasoline problem...
...pioneer, he was prepared to defend his narrow-gauge ideas from any and every angle. Narrow-gauge Pullmans would be an advantage, said he, because "the coaches would not be so wide as to allow the sleeper to roll with the movement of the train." Said a caustic newspaper writer...