Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army decided to allow him to finish his three-year hitch, of which about a year and a half remained. He was a good soldier when I knew him and, so far as I know, is now drawing the pension and benefits to which an honorably discharged veteran of the Spanish-American War is entitled...
...duty of every American to eliminate all political machines, large or small, so that the Constitution of the United States of America may live on as an inspiration to the world at large. We cannot hope to lead the world as a symbol of freedom and humanitarianism when we allow dozens of would-be Hitlers to thrive in our own country...
...Canada as human beings but to ban all further immigration. But not all Canadians subscribe to this policy. In the House of Commons Chester McLure, Conservative from Prince Edward Island, stood up and intemperately ranted: "Away with those human rats. God forbid that our nation should ever again allow one of them to set foot on Canada's soil." One Government official angrily cried that he would prefer, personally, "to throw out every god damned one of them," regardless of citizenship. No Government, of course, would ever allow such a thing to happen...
Floating airports have been an engineer's dream for years. The sober Lords of the Admiralty claim that the Lily stays fairly flat when jolted by waves 35 ft. high, can be quickly assembled or towed to any desired spot. A Lily with larger, deeper buoys would allow trans-ocean airplanes to land...
...some help along the way from his father, who had a tea & coffee importing business in Brooklyn, prosperous enough to allow the Sloans to have two or three servants in the home most of the time...