Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most colleges--including Harvard-require at least a reading knowledge of one ancient or modern language, while Bowdoin makes mathematics an alternative Yale and Bates allow the substitution for Latin of a "classical civilization" survey course, and Lafayette goes as far as to prescribe two years each of a modern language, Latin and math...
...heard in the auditorium. In the old horse-&-buggy era, Wagnerian divas like Johanna Gadski and Lillian Nordica had expected even the stagehands to wait on them. Traubel insists on putting on her own makeup, wig and costumes, because "being dependent is a luxury you shouldn't allow yourself...
Three Leagues have tried to meet the menace half-way. The Big Ten allows no outright purchase of talent; neither does it allow part-time "jobs". But there is nothing short of a Commissar who can stop interested alumni from assuring Glutz, the promising blocking-back, that coffee, cakes and liniment will be no problem at the U. The Pacific Coast Conference, under minor Czar Warren Atherton, has a stringent rule forbidding even such Alumni dalliance with high-school seniors. While the spirit of the coast authorities is willing, the flesh is relatvely weak; enforcement of this laudable stand lacks...
Area by area, it appears that the outright landslide predicted by the Republicans has been exaggerated to lend a bandwagon effect. The trend is unmistakable, but it is more than doubtful whether the deluge will carry 26 seats in the House and 9 in the Senate to allow for the first right-of-the-aisle Congress since 1930. Certain facts must be dealt with--the South, except for heresy in Kentucky, will still be solid. The southwest, claims of insurgent Democrats withal, will string along with tears in its eyes. And the balance in the east will not be fundamentally...
...this dissatisfaction, with unpopularity of the O.P.A. and the current red scare providing the impetus. The loss of Henry Wallace will produce the same result at the other extreme. Yet the question remains whether the key Democrats in this key area will desert in numbers large enough to allow a clean oppositionist sweep. For nothing less will give the Republicans control of the House and Senate and their first clear electoral victory since 1928. Nothing less than this sweep will pit one branch of the government against the other in a standoff...