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Word: allowances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel H. Collom of Philadelphia, voted last week in Boston to remove the bar sinister of professionalism it voted six months ago when Tilden wrote in U. S. newspapers about the matches at Wimbledon, a -tour-nament in which he was playing. The bar was removed once before, to allow Tilden to play in the 1928 Davis Cup matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Amateur Tilden | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...informed, Mrs. Eddy did not, at any time after 1866,** believe in the use of any drug as a curative agent in connection with the practice of Christian Science. Nor did she at any time after she became a Christian Scientist, either use a drug or allow one to be used for her, except as she employed, in a few instances, an anesthetic for the purpose of temporary relief from extreme pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mother, Parent & Drugs | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

With a vicious criticism of the Interstate Commerce Commission, he mentioned as an instance that the Pennsylvania Railroad is regulated under laws which permit neither advancement nor a fair return on capital invested. A greater degree of freedom would allow the railroad to put its plans through more effectively, since it would be unhampered by restricting laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Railroad Head Raps Restrictions of Interstate Commerce Commission--Forsees 30,000,000 Population in New York | 1/31/1929 | See Source »

...story for the new gymnasium which seem like an afterthought instead of an integral part of the building), but I do believe that any firm with the prospect of eleven million dollars of work for an institution should devote a considerable time to the completed future project, and not allow objections to the cost on the part of the University to be sufficient cause for waiving a better plan. Objections of such sort can be diplomatically overcome. The Student Council committee has shown rare wisdom is insisting on the proper procedure. Although their rough sketch shows defects (for instance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A Harvard Beautiful" | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...Representative Wallace H. White Jr. of Maine, Chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, called at the White House. He told the President that much sentiment had arisen in the Committee to drop all radio legislation, to allow the Federal Radio Commission to go out of existence as an administrative body in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 28, 1929 | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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