Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high time that Harvard students give the House Plan some meaning, and allow each House to become a center of friendship and activity, in short, to assume a personality...
...judgment has two avenues of escape--increased revenue or adulterated quality. In pursuance of the policy of satisfactory meals, Mr. Durant has been forced to boost the price in order to maintain the present standard of food without dipping into other pockets of the University. The president increase will allow the same margin of safety as that which existed in the past two years when approximately $40,000 was cleared, a margin of approximately 4%. On an estimated total of well over $900,000 it is approaching folly to shave this margin when the University makes no provision for losses...
...made for the specific purpose of taxing the people to the point where they were either paupers or thieves. Lincoln knew that patronage was the greatest enemy of all governments. . . . Would that we had a man like Lincoln in the White House today. If we did, he would never allow a brain-trusters' creed to teach the doctrine that you can boondoggle yourself back to prosperity...
...bugler, rare even among its own kind, about which MacKinlay Kantor wrote his short best-selling novel, played in the picture by a prize bitch from the pack of Sheriff Tom Bash of Kansas City, Mo. Bitch, to be sure, was a word Spring Davis (Lionel Barrymore) would not allow used for his lady-dog. He believed in general that a dog was as good a friend as a man, except that it had none of a man's faults. When an interloper (Dudley Digges) circled his sheep pasture with woven-wire fence, hog-tight, bull-strong, and horse...
...Socialistic, nor New Republican, nor Industrially Democratic, nor Democratic, nor Republican, nor Conservative, nor Liberal, nor Tory, nor Mugwump, nor Right, nor Wrong. Probably this "must" could best be carried through by parliamentary organization, such as has been attempted before by the Liberal Club, but with definite rules to allow at all times, a motion from the floor, carried by a two-thirds vote, that the speaker be stopped, or that the question in discussion be changed, subject always to previous motions that a given speaker, or a given subject, be allowed so and so many minutes. This would prevent...