Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Larger pensions for workers, going into effect earlier, in order to allow young men a chance at jobs held by their elders...
...race. While not pulling as strong an oar as other oarsmen who have been previously tried out this season in the stroke seat, the favor of a narrow oar, such as was employed by John Watts '28 last year, may remedy the situation and allow him the reserve necessary for the final effort...
...highest of bourgeois comfort. But what of the man who must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books to his exams. He never has an opportunity to allow his studies to ripen in his mind. For four years he is subjected to a grind which little by little disheartens him and he never gets his head above water to enjoy the broader contacts College should give him. Let him approach ever so near the Dean's List--three...
...have read your magazine from cover to cover and I was a great deal surprised when I came across (in the May 20 issue) my uncle's picture, Homer Guck. You stated that his name was pronounced "Guke," allow me to correct you, it is spelt Guck as in book...
...Ivan C. Dresser. Southern California's Jesse Hill broad-jumped 25 ft. 7/8 in., another intercollegiate record. Yale's Sidney Kieselhorst, champion last year, did the 220-yd. low hurdles in 23 3/10 sec., breaking a record which had stood since 1898-almost. Officials refused to allow Kieselhorst his record because of a "tail wind." For the first time, three intercollegians threw the javelin more than 200 feet-Stanford's Leo Kibby winning with...