Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anne Hutchinson, religious enthusiast who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 for feeling good (called Antinomianism by Puritan divines), was the object of a bill introduced in the Massachusetts State Legislature. Object: to revoke her banishment and allow her to "return" to ban-bound Boston, where she is the only woman ever honored by a statue...
...Said Georgia Tech's wise Bill Alex ander (TIME, Feb. 5): "When colleges allow a promoter or any other noncollegiate operator to book their athletic teams" - as they are booked in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Buffalo's arenas-"they are asking for trouble...
...beginning to be tinged with a sense that in order to stay home, once he gets there, Europe must be left in better shape than he found it. Just how to achieve it bothers him intensely. Somehow, the more articulate ones feel, a way must be found to allow Europeans to choose their own political systems and yet to hold them in check so that the strong do not again oppress the weak...
...again as I have worked during these three years in the Army. During the easiest days of training the working day averaged better than ten hours and about the only way we could recognize Sunday was by the absence of our Catholic colleagues. My next job will have to allow time for private, personal thinking, talking, reading and writing...
...Carta-the Wagner Act. Said Jackson: "I must admit that in overriding the findings of the Texas court we are applying to Thomas a rule the benefit of which in all its breadth and vigor this court denies to employers in NLRB cases. . . . However, the remedy is not to allow Texas improperly to deny the right of free speech but to apply the same rule and spirit to free speech whoever the speaker...