Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coming game of the Business School team which at the present is ahead of the Crimson unit in the Metropolitan C League. A loss for the businessmen would leave them in a tie for first with Wynn's squad which has finished play in that department, and allow it to concentrate on its college and school competition...
...elementary GE list--which even now provides 11 choices in social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The remaining credits would be elected from either the upper-group GE list or a bumper crop of departmental courses. In every step of the actual framing, the Committee has been careful to allow leeway-- even to the inclusion of two "elastic clauses" to handle exceptional cases, individual or composite...
...plan is a model of restraint and care. Professor Wright's group has submitted a 'stepladder' program which would introduce the new rulings in a way that would allow smooth expansion of facilities and Faculty, and would not dislocate the College with a sudden changeover. And the proponents have no intention of urging on Harvard any such full program of compulsory courses as is now operative at Amherst or Chicago...
Later, William M. Pinkerton, Director of the University News Office, refused to allow Life Magazine to photograph the Smoker. His reason was that such an article might bring the University unfavorable publicity...
...William Alexander Bustamante-Minister of Communications, pistol-toting boss of "Bustamante's Industrial Trade Unions," and leader of the majority Labor Party-was on his feet, his white mane bristling. "I appeal to Mr. Speaker," he roared, "for the withdrawal of the word twist. I refuse to allow anyone to make an imputation against my irreproachable character...