Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...project itself has two sides. It calls for the creation of a 27-foot channel that will allow ocean-going vessels to steam from the Atlantic to any of the ports on the Great Lakes. The Seaway's second feature is a power-producing chain of dams on the St. Lawrence which would provide locks for navigation. As now conceived, the entire enterprise is estimated at $720,000,000, although opponents claim that expenses would run much higher...
Biggest attraction in the masculine Merry Mite clothes is the tricky use of seams, suspenders and tabs (see cut), which allow them to be let out easily so the clothes can "grow" with the wearer (e.g., pleated "sesame seams" on shirts, running from front to back, can be sheared open to make the shirt larger and sleeves longer). The clothes are more expensive (10 to 20%) than other children's clothes. But Designer Geissmann figures that their trim appearance and longer usefulness make them worth...
There are 15 to 20 men out for Yardling track now, Pirnie continued, but "even if men doubled up in some events, we would need at least 30 more men to build a team." The season will be over early enough to allow men on the squad plenty of time to study for finals...
...country. But if it is not a feeble hope to expect him to remain in a University which has virtually abolished his field, he should be persuaded to undertake a General Education course emphasizing the influence of geography on history, government, and economics. The University cannot afford to allow its study of geography, vitally important to understanding the nation's position as a world power, to die for departmental political or financial reasons...
...presence of large numbers of veterans under the G.I. Bill of Rights may make it wise for the Faculty to delay temporarily any definite change, but policy discussions should start as soon as possible to allow for expression of opinion from all the student and faculty groups who will want to heard. It is never too soon to revive one of the deadest elements of Harvard's not over-lively academic liberalism...