Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Agreements between theatres and distributors allow distributors to stop releasing 16 mm films to groups which might compete with local movie houses. Gootenberg pointed out, however, that HLU had signed a contract this fall with United World to rent...
...addition to an original fund to be provided by the corporation, an annual income of $250,000 will be needed to allow for adequate research, fellowship, and scholarship programs...
...committee rulings passed last night will allow one closed dance on any weekend, and provide that extra closed dances can be permitted by the House holding the open dances. The Spring schedule: February 26 Lowell March 5 Leverett March 12 Eliot March 19 Winthrop March 26 Dunster April 16 Kirkland April 23 Open April 30 Adams
...injects a good deal of humor into his acting, notably through gestures. Despite this, however, the characters of the wife and daughter are more intriguing, if less whole. Arlene Francis plays the wife with a restraint that suggests that there is more to her than the script will allow. Her part is brief and disturbing; the audience is hardly allowed to make more than a "cocktail-party analysis" of her personality...
Dropping bombs from a satellite would present problems. Ordinary bombs released from the bomb bay would merely follow along the orbit like smaller satellites. They would have to be shot downward to increase their falling rate and allow them to catch up with the curving surface of the earth. Shooting them backward would have a similar effect. If they were shot backward at a speed equal to the satellite's forward speed on its orbit, they would stand still in space for an instant. Then they would fall vertically toward the earth. The whole satellite could be brought down...