Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rule the Princeton lads not only couldn't get squiffed but couldn't even keep a bottle of sherry in their rooms without being theoretically liable for punishment. There has been a minimum of effort to enforce the ruling, however, and the new law is designed to allow a wider and more suitable enforcement...
Organized to fight Japan in the Middle Yangtze Valley, Moscow-trained General Yeh Ting's Fourth Route Army had become a formidable force. Meanwhile China's practically autonomous Communist Government had brought pressure on Chiang to allow its crack Eighth Route Army to move from the barren northwestern provinces into the rich Valley of the Yangtze. Fearing that the Fourth Route Army plus the Eighth might be two Trojan Horses in his camp, Chiang ordered General Yeh to march his Army northward out of the Valley. Instead, the Army marched southward. South of the river, it met Chiang...
Editor Niebuhr and his colleagues hope to change the minds of many more churchmen with Christianity and Crisis. Said he of his group's aims last week: "We think it dangerous to allow religious sensitivity to obscure the fact that Nazi tyranny intends to annihilate the Jewish race, to subject the nations of Europe to the dominion of a 'master' race, to extirpate the Christian religion, to annul the liberties and legal standards which are the priceless heritage of ages of Christian and humanistic culture. . . . We believe that the Christian faith can and must make...
...Nova ran a foot race, impeded by a hastily donned corset. The most implausible feature of the entertainment came when, as another Consequence, bland, dinner-jacketed Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd (in front of 1,500 invitees) was prevailed upon to thrust his head into a golden canary cage and allow himself to be fed crackers while he quavered "I'm Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage...
Foreign propaganda is not very dangerous compared with possible sabotage he said. If we adopt Hitler's point of view, moreover, it is obvious that Germany will not allow our defense efforts to continue unimpeded...