Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accompany the inauguration of the House Plan next year the physical limits of the present buildings will have been reached. While there remains a small margin of expansion in the fact that the rooms are not always used up to their full capacity, to take advantage of this small leeway would prove very difficult and would involve many undesirable features. Otherwise, the only recourse would be to multiply the number of afternoon classes, already unpopular among both professors and students...
...chemistry course knows the annoyance and loss of time engendered by the inexorable cry "Close up; time to close up! When he has assembled a complicated apparatus and proceeded half way through a difficult experiment. Even though five minutes might suffice to save an hour's work, if no leeway is given the student one hour is wasted...
...outstanding performer for the schoolboys, capturing two firsts with very little opposition. In the high jump, Kuehn cleared five feet eight inches with plenty to spare, and then came back to throw the shot 46 feet 11 1-2 inches to win the event with a two-foot leeway over his nearest competitor...
...encouraging promiscuous sensuality," she said, "and I do not believe in it because it puts the idea into a man's head that he can at will get out of all family responsibilities. Men are very much like children and they should not be allowed too much legal leeway...
...Committee felt that these two plans contained most pertinent suggestions although neither in the opinion of the Committee offered an immediate solution. The suggestions in Mr. Harlow's essay and in that of Mr. Weissberger, regarding the self service at a flat rate and a separate grill with more leeway as to hours of service the judges felt might be incorporated in the plan presented by Mr. Keyes. The Committee, while disagreeing with the solution offered by Mr. Wyzanski of supervised private boarding houses, considered his essay as possibly the most carefully worked out and ably presented it felt that...