Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya acts as regent for the kingdom of Hungary because the Allies will not yet allow the people to have what a majority of them almost certainly want, a Habsburg king
...those who are working with him are trying to gain efficiency through directness of approach and through a reduction of friction. Taking duties certainly peculiarly fitted for those intimately connected with the work from those less well endowed cannot be considered as other than progressive. The tendency to allow a dubiously adequate system to exist usually betokens sluggishness or fear of novelty. That these who are at the center of Harvard athletic affairs are adjusting and making more effective their machinery is to be praised...
...third novel Major Hamilton Gibbs has continued his struggle to put down on paper his reactions to our late friend,--the War. In "Labels" he has written what must be almost an autobiography, since its pages are too starkly intense to allow of much second-hand material...
...written is great literature; he has been wise enough to exercise a critical ability in choosing what he admits to print; he is wise enough to know that his later offerings, done at an advanced age, may be lacking in power. So, in true Victorian fashion, he refuses to allow these poems to be published. Moderns will declare that he does not know so much about contemporary fashions in literature as do authors of this generation, that he does not realize the sacredness of advertising, that he does not understand the importance of royalties. This he would grant them...
Spectators must keep their seats until the game is over. Ushers and police have been instructed to allow no one to stand in the aisics or entrances while the game is in progress. Persons leaving their seats must leave the field...