Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this chaos of counterclaims, one possibility grew more likely: a deadlock that might allow a dark horse to romp away with the nomination...
...Rescue. Meanwhile the R. A. F., who already had been intervening in the battle so far as its range would allow it to go from home bases, now used a part of its main metropolitan fighter strength to strike at German bombers...
...American, I am ashamed that our national house was in such order as to allow an unsocial brute to violate Colonel Lindbergh's home. And as a human I am ashamed that our international house is in such order as to allow an unsocial brute to violate the homes of the Czechs, the Poles, the Danes, the Norwegians, the Luxembourgeois, the Dutch and the Belgians...
...were kept in Europe by business, who had gone there on errands of mercy, who were there to study history in the making. All appealed, seemingly with one voice, to their fellow citizens at home: "Help the Allies!" Even seasoned U. S. press correspondents, whose professional traditions would not allow them to write such an appeal into their dispatches, fairly shouted it to their friends in private...
...Haldane's new book of essays, previously published in England under the title of "Keeping Cool," takes up scientific and social problems from a point of view which cannot allow any segregation of the two. Professor Haldane's career as a scientist has been remarkable, both in its scientific and non-scientific aspects; he gave aid to the Spanish Loyalist Government as a consultant in the problem of gas attacks, and as a lecturer in Britain; he has been a consistent fighter against Fascism, at home and abroad; and he is the last man of research who has resisted evacuation...