Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liked 'em, indeed! And me hospitalized with what the medicos allow ain't nothing whatsoever, lessen it's maybe plain jitters...
...Strauss, as Adams and Lowell both close the term's festivities with waltzing parties from 8 to 12 o'clock. Ruby Newman will supply the music for the Gold Coasters, and to it some 60 couples will dance to their hearts' content, for attendance has been limited to allow room enough for waltzing par excellence with all the trimmings...
...Administration argued that if the men were promoted to associate professors, they would subsequently have to be promoted to full professors, with an accompanying salary increase, and that the University's finances wouldn't allow this. The opposition rebutted with the suggestion that the men be promoted to associate professors, which would involve only a small salary increase, and that they not be promised full professorships, but be allowed to stay on as "frozen" associate professors...
...program was of value only to the people being fed, Hitler would certainly not allow the prestige of the democracies to be built up at his own expense. Goebbels' propaganda would easily take the form: "America approves the New Order. By helping Germany feed the people under her sphere, America is giving active support to the New Order...
...British people were deliberately subjecting themselves to privations so that the war might end soon, could the British very well allow relaxations of the blockade which might prolong the war? 5) There are worse things than going hungry-i.e., slavery. The sooner the war is won-by the blockade and other means -the sooner the conquered will be free and fed. It would be "false humanity" to feed the occupied territories...