Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bitter? Perhaps I am, but Ceil, think how wonderful everything could be if only we would try to aim in the right direction. If only the rotten branches were cut off and cast away-the 'true vine' would then have a chance to thrive. Gosh I have my dreams, I can tell...
...mattered not to the President that his Commerce Department's own Business Advisory Council had promulgated a tax revision program just like John Hanes's. What the President stuck for was the undistributed profits tax, a symbol to him of taxation-for-social control. Its aim is to force rich corporations to distribute earnings instead of keeping them in surplus. It also forces not-so-rich corporations to pay out, in dividends, earnings which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance...
...mattered not to the President that his Commerce Department's own Business Advisory Council had promulgated a tax revision program just like John Hanes's. What the President stuck for was the undistributed profits tax, a symbol to him of taxation-for-social control. Its aim is to force rich corporations to distribute earnings instead of keeping them in surplus. It also forces not-so-rich corporations to pay out, in dividends, earnings which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance...
...sent to each new Freshman next September in an effort to help the neophyte to avoid the pitfalls of Freshman year which can so easily be dodged if a measure of thoughtful advice on instructors and courses is forthcoming. It has been for several years the Crimson's aim to furnish this advice to new men; hence, the Confidential Guide has become a traditional aid to incoming, Freshmen. This year, minus its somewhat misleading title, "Confidential," the Freshman Guide will be written to stress student opinion on first year courses, disregarding for the autumn at least the secondary problem...
...Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full course of Cathy's and Heathcliff's passion. Mr. Olivier is particularly good as the gypsy lover, catching all of that character's mysterious and dangerous attraction. Maturest entertainment to come out of Hollywood in some time, "Wuthering Heights" does not "aim to please"; it is substantial intellectual fare, a straightforward dramatization of a unique and overwhelmingly powerful story...