Word: affected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposes instead that great pressure be applied to the collection of the present "direct taxes"-the notoriously "uncollectable" income tax, etc. Then it turns about and tries to levy "indirect taxes" on the rich- the securities, luxury and automobile taxes. Next it straddles by increasing the postal rates, which affect all classes. It resorts to such highly experimental measures as trying to see whether the Government can step in and seize one-third of every estate-a sheer impossibility where the "estate" is literally in the stocking of a tight-fisted French peasant family. Finally it proposes to save...
...with its use. This means that all patients who desire to avail themselves of this treatment must go to Liverpool and place themselves under the care of the group of physicians who have familiarized themselves with the symptoms which indicate whether a patient can stand a sufficient dose to affect the tumor...
Strange freak of nature, that those great holocaustic agencies that affect man most, should be so little understood by him while they exist. Mankind must forever await patiently the future which shall interpret the past in retrospect. The question, "Who began the war?" must remain for the present as impenetrable a mystery as its correlative...
...some sort or whether it was of geologic origin. Now, however, there is no doubt that it was an internal disturbance, located near Medford. There is no truth, however, in the supposition that it was due to a frost crack. While it is often possible for the weather to affect the earth's peace, in this instance it has not been the case...
...involve other issues. It may affect the whole legislative program in Congress through log-rolling by the farm bloc. It is likely to be an important factor in the Congressional elections next fall. Its influence may go even further...