Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admitted Erck, "the girls do study now and then and sometimes they produce quite excellent results." When they do poorly, "they take their penalties like men, and if under the weight of their trials . . . they do allow themselves to burst into tears . . . they become very angry with themselves. This, of course, only makes them cry all the harder for the moment, but then they go off and try again...
...arrangement, which starts in September, will allow the students to study at Tufts for three years and then switch for two years to the Law School. In their sixth and seventh years they will do part of their work in Medford and part in Cambridge, commuting between the two cities...
...armies decides it is the stronger. And there are always the bomb-planters who cannot wait for official shooting to start. Bi-lateral treaties, even if made with all sincerity by leaders, can never assure unmolested access to Jerusalem's Shrines. If nations are going to allow the UN to use its powers, they must let it decide what is "likely" to destroy peace and act accordingly...
There are three choices: to continue with the present system, and investigate its results after another decade; to make appointments as vacancies appear and as many needs arise; or to find some system which retain the consistency of the present methods but allow for reasonable flexibility and sensitivity in apportionment of permanent, had paid instruction to fit the demands of times...
...grades in those courses which meet toward the end of the exam period. If this would make it too tough for the Administrative Board to examine the grades of students going on or coming off probation, there is another possibility: The inter-term recess might be lengthened. This would allow instructors more time to deal fully with the bluebooks, and it would give students the satisfaction of knowing that a term's work was not being glossed over by hurried graders...