Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defender of the workers' conquests and oppose groups attempting to discredit them." But the workers, he went on, must go forward with the country, obey the laws, learn discipline, above all cooperate with the Government. Scarcely skin-deep under the rhetoric was the threat that Avila Camacho would allow no actions of labor to smother the boomlet in Mexican business that has popped since his inauguration. But surprisingly enough the conservative press saw in the speech a move to the left on the President's part...
...picture is painted that matters, it is what you paint. Some modern artists have sunk to imbecility, not pitiable imbecility but vicious imbecility." At his pet abomination, WPA art, he snorts: "The worst thing the Government could have done for the nation was to allow these thousands of dub painters to put those frightful abortions called murals all over the country, especially in schools where the nation's children are brought up on them. The only thing it can lead to is insanity...
This proposal is contrary to the present intention of the University, which plans to allow for the reduction by hiring fewer teaching fellows and assistants next year without reducing the salaries of permanent officers...
...mast, which will fold back to allow passage under the bridges on the Charles, a long overhanging poop, a small motor hidden away in the stern, and a half-inch brass cannon mounted in the bow, will be features of the junk's gear...
Last year the students of Harvard were shocked by the refusal of the University authorities to allow them to hear Earl Browder. It was not in "good taste," the authorities said, because Browder was under indictment for a passport violation. But a large number of students saw through this flimsy pretext, recognized in the ban against the secretary of the Communist Party a dangerous attack on civil liberties, and several hundred students expressed their recognition by petitioning the University in protest...