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Word: allowance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Allow me to thank you for your . . . understanding article on my late husband's work [TIME, Oct. 18] now being shown at the Museum of Modern Art . . . Your critic is ... one of the very few who took the time and the thought, not only to look at the sculpture, but to see it and to evaluate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Sterilization Bonus. Vogt suggests that the U.S. should help no country with food or anything else unless it first agrees to limit its birth rate. One method he favors: a bonus to males who allow themselves to be sterilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Eat Hearty | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Unfortunately, a full-scale Manchurian Dunkirk from Yingkow was no longer possible. The success of the operation depended on the ability of General Liao Yao-hsiang to keep open the escape corridor with twelve divisions, to allow the remaining seven Nationalist divisions to embark. Last week, the Communist radio announced that Liao's whole demoralized force had been wiped out. Significantly, it added that the disaster had occurred "on the eve of the U.S. elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Rout | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...University, which opened November 1, was founded to allow students and professors to study uncensored, and has been established in the Western sector of the city in competition with the old University of Berlin, which is in the Russian sector...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collection To Aid Free University in Berlin Via N. S. A. | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

Miss Elizabeth Olney, hockey instructor, did not allow herself to be dazzled by the foreigners' play. "See that rollin," she commented, "the way he threw that ball in isn't legal in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Player Shortage Marks First Radcliffe Hockey Tilt | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

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