Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of two young schoolteachers whose lives are wrecked when one of their pupils accuses them of Lesbianism. This seemed to the guardians of the cinema industry's morals so appalling that they not only banned both the title of the play and its plot but refused to allow Producer Goldwyn even to announce that he had bought such a thing...
Constructively, Dr. Hooton proposes an Institute of Clinical Anthropology, presumably to be financed by one of "those great philanthropic foundations which alternately establish and allow to perish . . . institutes for research to promote human betterment." Besides growth, old age, immunity and susceptibility, the institute would study norms and variations in physical, mental and nervous structure. New research channels would be fully developed.,: In orthopedics, for example, X-rays and slow-motion pictures would be used to investigate posture and gait from birth to death. The staff would include some physical anthropologists, whose special training and points of view are essential...
...system, however, produces a keener and much shorter competition for the position of Varsity Football Manager. Three weeks work in the Spring, followed by eight weeks in the Fall is all that is required, and a turnout of twenty or thirty men will allow each man a certain number of days off. Thus the competition will be shorter and more efficient, with sufficient time left for academic requirements. Executive ability will be developed by increased responsibility, and the candidates will be given opportunity to organize their own work...
...tribunal can settle issues involving a direct difference of opinion as to the interpretation of existing laws. The National Collegiate Athletic Association is the supreme court of boxing, and must therefore be consulted in this matter. Harvard and Yale must agree to accept the opinion of this body and allow it to stand as a precedent for future boxing decisions...
...offer to re-enter the League of Nations, while on the surface seeming like an about-face and an admission of defeat, will in effect also create a highly dangerous situation. Germany must not be allowed to rejoin the League. Her only excuse for doing so has been frankly stated:-she wants to reopen the question of colonies, and discard the Versailles treaty in its entirely. Neither of these moves can possibly be countered at the present moment and as one correspondent stated in a despatch, her re-entrance would have the effect of admitting a wolf into a pack...