Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, then, must be eradicated. Princeton and Harvard are too ancient rivals in athletics, too much a part of the best traditions of American education to allow themselves to linger in what at best is a petty feudalism. The CRIMSON very sincerely and seriously wants to continue the annual football game with Princeton. It hopes that in the future facts will take the place of fancies, that the bad taste of a small element in other university will not dictate the opinion of either undergraduate body, that there will never again be a time when the stands are audibly antagonistic...
...Listened with a general air of disapprobation as "Labor Peers" Lord Sydney Arnold and Lord Charles Parmoor deplored what they deemed the excessive readiness of the police to deal harshly with strikers. An example cited was the refusal of the police at Wombwell, Yorkshire, to allow President Herbert Smith of the Yorkshire Miners' Association to address a crowd of 3,000 strikers...
None would allow himself to survive the disgrace of defeat in the coming action. . . . When battle came, the Admiral stood for a whole day unscathed on the bridge of his flagship, while half the officers who stood with him were hit by fragments of shells. . . . Forced to display a valor equally prodigious, his captains did not fail him. . . . Port Arthur fell.* Colossal Russia reeled. Minute Japan took rank among the mighty. From that day began in earnest the struggle for sea power which placed Japan at the Washington Conference (1921) on a 3 5-5† basis ± with...
Such rigorous actions, although no doubt performed in the best sincerity, are puerile; a nation is not to be corrupted as an innocent child; visitors may have dangerous ideas but until those ideas are expressed within the national boundaries they should be allowed to proceed in peace. Dismissal of an unruly guest is a far more civilized method of maintaining order than barring the door to all suspicious and unconventional applicants. The phrase "a free country" appears to have been lost in the jumble of distorted democracy. To allow radicals to enter the United States is not necessarily a proclamation...
...Athletic Association is emphatic in its announcement that spectators must keep their seats until the game is over. Users and police have been instructed to allow no standing in the aisles or entrances while the game is in progress. That persons, who leave their seats must leave the field, is the order...