Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Color Line. By repealing a 62-year-old law, New Jersey became the first of the 21 "butter" states to allow margarine manufacturers to color their product yellow for retail sale...
...field of comedy, however, the Trib players allow themselves to romp with such abandon that the script becomes a contender for the laughter of the audience. The challenge offered by William Shakespeare in "The Taming of the Shrew," for instance, was met on the more or less neutral grounds of Mutual Hall last week and the Trib players won by a technical knockout, a decision with which the audience seemed clearly in accord. Mr. Duvey had rounded up some clever, earthy comedians and they succeeded in making "The Taming of the Shrew" a lot of fun for everyone...
...Food. On the fourth day, Ike relaxed the security sufficiently to allow photographers to take pictures. He posed in a raucous red and black plaid jacket, called it "the Maclke tartan." But he turned down reporters' gambits on politics with a firm: "Not even no comment on no comment." Then, indicating a table being set for lunch, he grinned and cracked: "You can say I'm running for food." Roly-poly George Allen, his spirits dampened by a strict diet, was even more uncommunicative...
Last week's publication was "a protest against the refusal of the Board of Trustees to allow the Liberal Club to have its own magazine," the editors said. "If progressive students, in defense of their rights, must resort to a strategem," a preface to the magazine states, "let those who occasioned it suffer the odium...
...second item on the committee report was disapproval of the Band's plans for a summer trip to Latin America. "The University cannot allow Pepsi-Cola to advertise as presenting the Harvard University Band. We are very careful about that sort of thing," said Watson...