Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee will act as a steering committee for the faculty. It will appoint special groups for specific problems and organize the procedure of the faculty meetings so as to allow the faculty meetings so as to allow the faculty to function with greater efficiency...
Engaged. Buster Keaton, stone-faced funnyman, 43; and Dancer Eleanor Ruth Morris, 21; in Los Angeles. Said Keaton, already twice divorced: "I feel like smiling, but the studio won't allow it-not in public, anyway...
Education of a Prince. In 1915, when he was 14, before he went to Eton, Leopold demanded and for six months was allowed to serve in his father's trenches as a private soldier. After Eton, he was tutored for four years along special lines mapped by his father, emphasizing economics. Also, travel. Oldtime U. S. newspapermen remember the democratic young prince (no great contrast, except among gay ladies, to Britain's then Prince of Wales) who accompanied King Albert through the U. S. in 1919, playing poker with them, driving the locomotive. With his father he visited...
...sharp sentence Lloyd George had already discounted much of Winston Churchill's effectiveness. "I hope," purred World War I's Prime Minister, "[the First Lord] won't allow himself to be converted into an air-raid shelter to keep splinters from hitting his colleagues...
...other hand a long-drawn-out victory by Germany over the Allies is expected, what should America do then? It is generally conceded that time is on the side of the Allies; but allowing that Germany might win after an extended struggle, such a struggle would exhaust and debilitate the victor as well as the vanquished. This enervated Germany would hardly be a threat to the Americas: after its wearying death-grapple with England and France, it would have to bring the other countries of Europe to a state of subjection and non-resistance, entrench its continental position enough...