Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fans insist that 41-year-old Danilova is "a dancer's dancer," the best classical dancer today. Most balletomanes allow her ballet's most beautiful legs (a critic once called them "flexible and . . . fast [as a] hummingbird's wings...
...Globe-Democrat) hoped it would not live long. So did St. Louis readers, who found the skimpy four pages of its first issue an inadequate substitute. To start their St. Louis Daily News, Guildsmen wangled a first allotment of 16¼ tons of newsprint from WPB (which will allow any new daily paper that much), persuaded a south St. Louis neighborhood publisher to print it,* and hired an apartment above his plant for their editorial offices. Copyreaders toiled in the living room. Managing Editor Thomas Sherman (who edits the Post-Dispatch Sunday editorial page), his society department and a Transradio...
When it did not come quickly enough, he pinned his own price on them-25% above the 1942 price. But he left himself a loophole. If the OPA did not allow this increase on washers, Hurley promised to refund the difference...
...Urged Congress to continue Selective Service induction of men 18 to 25, cautioned it against a premature declaration of the end of the war. Said he: "Tragic conditions would result if we were to allow the period of military service to expire . . . while a substantial portion of our forces have not yet been returned from overseas...
Philadelphia, starting its plan later, has added a couple of refinements, including a teacher who is himself a former lieutenant colonel. Veterans, in their separate school, are allowed to smoke in class. They are given a starting bonus of one credit in physical education (because they've had G.I. exercise) and one-half unit in social science for having gone through Army or Navy indoctrination courses. The 39 now enrolled (ranks: private through captain) cram 30 hours of classwork and 30 hours of homework into each week, which will allow them to complete a year's schooling...