Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fussbudgety Senator Fess of Ohio was on his feet. Senator Bingham's eyes traveled trustingly to him. Said Senator Fess: "Mr, President, I ask the Senator [Norris] if he will not allow the resolution to go over." Senator Norris moved his head in the perfunctory assent of one long used to the Senate's delays. Senator Fess sat down. Senator Bingham looked at the back of Senator Norris' head...
...denominations, 44 allow women to be ordained to the ministry. The better known : Christian Scientists, Congregationalists, Pillars of Fire, Friends, Primitive Methodists, Salvation Army, Spiritualists, Unitarians, Universalists...
Manhattan has a zoning law which stipulates that the sides of skyscrapers be set back at intervals, thus tapering the building towards the top to allow maximum light and air to the streets...
...recent decision of the faculty of the Phillips Exeter Academy to allow all men in school regardless of their scholastic standing to compete in athletics with rival institutions seems on the surface ill-considered. It has long been the custom of most of the leading colleges and preparatory schools to make athletes too the mark academically, and to all intents and purposes the effects of these regulations have been entirely beneficial. Athletes have been forced to realize that the primary purpose of a higher education is not to play football...
These flying visits by the Corps not only allow the cadets to see something of the colleges they visit and provide a welcome-even though brief respite from their daily routine, but give their hosts for the day an opportunity to welcome on their fields the wearers of the Black, Gold and Gray--those students of a great national institution, truly representative in its membership of the whole country irrespective of section, creed or class; whose traditions for the century and a quarter since its foundation have been so closely identified with the progress and development of the country that...