Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take Your Pick. And lastly, it passed two pieces of legislation which would allow Hummon to succeed himself. With this and the unit-voting extension, Hummon could take his pick: he could either continue as governor or take his political ambitions to the U.S. Senate; some said he was narrowing his eyes speculatively at Georgia's senior Senator Walter George, whose term...
Classroom time has been increased to allow for the new courses, and in addition a program of required summer reading has been established. However, the number of elective courses which a student may take has not been increased...
...This consideration makes federal ownership necessary to maintain an important oil reserve. A Representative from Texas, however, says that there is precedent for federal regulation of state owned oil fields. Although most oil conservation is now in the hands of the states, perhaps the doctrine of paramount rights would allow the federal government to regulate the conservation of the oil while the states would maintain their ownership. States and oil interests, however, fear what might be done by the federal government in the name of conservation...
...team will be further strengthened if Doug Anderson's sprained ankle heals enough to allow him to play the entire game. The cast over the third line wing's broken wrist doesn't bother his playing, but the ankle injury, sustained in the Dartmouth game, kept him on the bench during most of the Princeton game...
...Twickenham confessed that he had come only because he thought that the union was going to give children the right to have drivers' licenses. Then a boy wearing an Eton-type jacket got up and said: "Sir, if your union does away with corporal punishment, but continues to allow 'lines' [e.g., 100 from Virgil, in a fair round hand], all I can say is that I'd rather have the cane." Copping assured the boy that children should be able to abolish anything they wanted...