Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be helping a great cause of a nation should you allow us to express our sentiment and voice our appeals to the good reason of the American people through your magazine...
Many a pollster, politico, politico-ed last week looked long into a crystal globe, previewed the results of the Presidential election. Some prognostications: Edward J. Flynn: "Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . with a minimum of 427 electoral votes. . . . We allow [Willkie] a maximum of nine States - an aggregate of 58 votes." Joseph W. Martin Jr.: "Willkie and McNary will receive a minimum of 324 electoral votes ... the Republicans will capture at least 60 additional seats in the House. . . ." Pathfinder Poll (owner: Emil Hurja): "Willkie victory with 353 electoral votes ... he may get as many as 385. . . ." Joseph Dunninger (spiritualist investigator) : "Thomas Jefferson...
...Student Union expects to allow the movement to grow of its own scored, and its only part will be to serve as a reservoir of the blue and white buttons bearing the legend "No Wilson Promises," the slogan of the movement's supporters...
...There was one challenge that famed Escapist Harry Houdini would never accept: he would never allow his thumbs to be tied behind his back by a Gloucester fisherman...
...several days. Set No. 3 got only fats. Set No. 4 got insulin and a normal amount of carbohydrates. Results: the first group developed severe diabetes; the others soon returned to normal insulin production and good health. Fasting and fat-feeding, as well as insulin injections, said the doctors, "allow the pancreatic islets to rest," give them time to restore fatigued cells...