Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thunder. The trouble began last spring when players, brooding over past grievances, organized a union; some felt underpaid, all were exasperated by the rules which allow clubs to sell or trade players at will. Wealthy clubs had taken to buying up promising hooters, not to play but to sit idle on the bench. A fortnight ago, the players put on a token strike. At exactly 3:45 p.m., in every stadium in Argentina, all players abruptly stood stock-still for one minute, then went on with the game...
...shakes as a play. When it was revived this fall on Broadway, it had plainly not improved with the years. But last week, as it has for the past six weeks, Private Lives was packing the Plymouth Theater with as many standees as the New York Fire Department will allow. What the customers were crowding to see was not so much a play as a remarkable personality with a remarkable name: Tallulah Bankhead...
Students without tickets can view the game from any of several sets around the Square. Winthrop House's set will be on, as well as the Union's, since the Union Dance Committee plans to delay decorating the small common room for the evening dance in order to allow Freshmen to crowd the room for the contest. Sets in the Varsity Club and in Cronin's restaurant beerhall will also be tuned...
...Housemasters' meeting was planned especially to co-ordinate parietal regulations, since the official rules allow each master to set the time limits for his own House...
...cure is vastly worse than the disease. It has already caused more misunderstanding, including the threatened resignation of two Student Council members, than it was designed to prevent. Refusal, for any reason, to allow direct investigation by students of the food they eat or the rooms in which they live is a violation of student rights. The constitution of the Student Council, approved by the Dean's Office, has always specifically stated the right of free investigation. Moreover, Bender, the man who suggests the new regulation, told the Council at its first meeting of the fall that its chief function...