Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana came out with the flat announcement : ''Conditions do not warrant even the present prices. . . . The Indiana company is sincerely desirous of seeing producers receive a satisfactory price for crude. But it is convinced that an advance in the face of present conditions would simply provide leeway for further abuses and delay progress toward permanent recovery" When oil was booming, when wildcat wells were going down by the thousand, when the first great pipelines were still pencil marks on engineers' maps, when promoters were swearing that they would checkerboard the States of Texas and Oklahoma with their...
...Plan system saves the teacher from being whirled around endlessly on this Ixion wheel. Since the student is examined directly on only one year's work, and since he is given much leeway for his answers under the New Plan, the teacher has much more freedom in giving preparation for New Plan Examinations. Under this, the development of the student in the class is the paramount factor in obtaining entrance to college. The teacher does not have to be a vending machine of examination answers. Instead of kowtowing to an omnipotent Board, he may follow his star. To quote...
...rowed a trifle higher than the other two boats, who battled close on the heels of the leading crew. As the distance to the finish flags dwindled, however, the Juniors gradually pulled into the lead, and although continually pressed by the Senior boat, coasted across the finish with ample leeway over the 1931 men, while the second-year boat was lost in the grey mist...
...reading should be done except the work to be criticized, offers a refreshing relief from courses in which students tend to become mere rewriters of other facts and thoughts. A report of this type which disposes of all research entirely is of course, the ultimate in allowing full leeway to individual ingenuity and is perhaps only possible in the completeness of its emphasis upon this aspect in the field of Literature. The general principles involved, however, can well be applied in varying degrees in other fields. In the case of history, for example, while at present no effort is made...
Preliminaries for both tournaments will be held in the respective practice rooms in Hemenway Gymnasium next Monday. A leeway of three pounds over the class weight will be allowed, and entry books are new posted in Hemenway...