Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avowed purpose of the project was to make it unnecessary for the girls to return to Shepard Street between classes and to allow more space for the mobs in Widener. Traditional Radcliffe deprecators will, of course, welcome the change, and an occasional queen walking down the aisle from the book desk will no longer waste a hundred man-hours of studious effort at every trip for a book...
...York Times put it more bluntly: "The action of the International Longshoremen's Association . . . sets a precedent with dangerous implications. . . . The fact that many will applaud this action without thinking does not make it right. ... It will be a bad day for all of us when we allow our foreign relations to be directed by longshoremen, or any other group, instead of by responsible Government authorities...
...slow-acting insulin solutions, developed by Denmark's Dr. H. C. Hagedorn, allow diabetics to get along on less frequent injections (often only one a day). A.D.A. President Joseph Barach summed up: with insulin plus careful (but ample) diet, "the diabetic patient can now expect to live an almost normal life...
...student body as a whole should know what Harvard alone, out of 14 colleges surveyed throughout the country, consents to allow its student legislature to be chosen by appointment. If the elective procedure is capable of providing capable leadership at Cornell, Oberlin, Chicago, Williams and other leading colleges, there is no reason why Harvard need fear smoke-filled rooms and Tammany-style politics. Fraternity blocs, the plague of many student governments elsewhere, could not achieve control on the local scene, where but one-fifth of the electorate belong to social clubs, and where the very nature of the organizations would...
Occupation authorities still allow fraternization. But new rules have gradually narrowed the limits until the chief G.I. problem has become: how to fraternize. The G.I. cannot take a Japanese girl to dinner: Army messes are off limits to Japanese; Japanese restaurants are off limits to Americans. A G.I. cannot take a Japanese girl to U.S. Army or Japanese movie houses, to a swimming pool, beach, or his billet...