Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew that but a three days' supply of bread was actually on hand in London. Though more bread could and would be brought, the knowledge that a three-day leeway was all the city possessed in the event of an embattled siege, hung like a sword over responsible heads in every quarter of the struggle...
...wholly Irish executive council. Except in the case of actual invasion the Irish Free State is not committed to active participation in any British war without the consent of its own Parliament. At the same time the British navy continues to protect the Irish coast. So much leeway is allowed under the new constitution, that even a tariff barrier may be raised by Ireland against British goods...
...University Squash Courts will be open in the evenings hereafter to relieve the present congestion and to give men more leeway in the matter of hours for exercise. Men may play either on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday or on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 11 to 1 o'clock. Six new courts are being added at the Squash Courts Building to increase the facilities. These will be closed to all but Freshmen on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but on other days will be open to all the rest of the University. Mr. Henry Cowles, University squash coach...
...fight in the preliminaries must weigh in at the Hemenway Gymnasium between 3.30 and 5 o'clock, while all those who are to be in the Friday bouts must weigh the day before at the same times even though they have already weighed for the preliminaries. Two pounds leeway will be allowed in the weight of each class so that men who are near the dividing line will be able to fight in two weights...
...than one tongue of fire. The law itself is to blame, for it states that three per cent of every foreign group now resident in the country shall form the quota of each nationality admitted--nationality to be determined by birth. It is clear, concise--but it allows no leeway or opportunity for judgement on individual cases...