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Word: disallowance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another resolution, expressing the Union's belief that the law was illegal, declared that "a written request be sent the Attorney-General at Quebec asking for the law's repeal and that Premier King be asked to disallow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGILL STUDENTS FLOUT LAW IN BATTLE FOR FREE SPEECH | 2/23/1938 | See Source »

...whiskey Toby bought while drunk in a strange speakeasy and left behind in the apartment by mistake. As Ann slowly recovers, Toby gets to work in earnest, sells some stories, writes a novel. The outcome, in suspense up to the last page, few will be so cynical as to disallow. It is a book calculated to make old men sigh, young men dreamy, newspaperwomen reminiscent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Newspaper Wife | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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