Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasant Harvard custom of week-ending guarantee at least a nucleus of rest around which to group whatever additional moments may be snatched in the cloistered bedrooms abutting on the square. In other words the Dean's office has made no mistake in allowing a certain amount of leeway on such weekends as the coming one which include an extra holiday...
...final scores in a field of 49 were a long parade beginning 14 strokes behind the par 320 scored by chunky, freckle-some Helen Hicks of Long Island. She had two course-record-breaking 78's to start with, which gave her subsequent 83 and 81 comfortable leeway under Virginia Van Wie of Chicago who managed to rush up from ninth to second place by finishing with two 79's. Other competitors included the Midwest's seasoned Mrs. Lee Mida and stocky Maureen Orcutt of the East. Conspicuously absent were Glenna Collett, Edith Cummings, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell...
...Latins be put in writing. All that afternoon, all night, all the next day, Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France and his Latin colleagues toiled to document their offer, snatching only occasional catnaps, trying desperately to get the job done in time to have a few days' leeway for final dickering before M. Briand would be obliged to leave for the September session "of the League of Nations at Geneva...
...salary of the chairman of the proposed Federal Farm Board be left to the President to fix, on the ground that he could thus obtain the services of a "high-powered" man who could be induced to take this job without financial sacrifice. The House bill authorized presidential leeway. So did the Senate bill until last week, when the Senate, a suspicious body, voted 46 to 32 to hold the board chairman's salary down to $12,000. Alarmed Senators claimed the President should not have such power, warned that he might fix the chairman's salary...
...sawed-off shotguns robbed the Cuneo plant of $8,000, but not the "mystery" plates. Then came the most perilous operation: 1,850,000 copies of Cosmopolitan had to be distributed throughout the land to wholesalers and retailers without the nature of its leading article being made public. All leeway time allowance for distribution was eliminated. Shipment was made by express instead of freight at additional cost of $12,000. Wholesalers were admitted to the secret and enjoined to secrecy at the moment of shipment. Not until three days before the Cosmopolitan reached newsstands was the truth let out. Then...