Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is more than a touch of Dickens about this passage and perhaps it would have been fairer to put it in quotation marks, but the Vagabond's memory is too faulty for such precision and it is too good to allow him to write something of his very own. Today occurs in Emerson 211 what the Vagabond feels is one of the finest lectures in College. He has heard it twice but he will go again today to hear Mr. Hersey speak on the "Paris of the Great Writers." There is the Revolution of Dickens, the Notre Dame...
...gamble, whether or not business in America has entirely succumbed to the entreaties of the economists and business experts for lower tariffs to rejuvenate trade. Why would not lower duties in the United States allow floods of commodities to pour in from outside nations that are badly in need of markets? If a readjustment in business relations is to take place, it seems a valid argument that manufacturers in the United States, with their higher costs, and more expanded production capacities, should be reluctant to speak for lower duties. In a run-down world where business expansion seems temporarily ended...
...cannot say farewell to life and you in formal words. Life seems to me like a Japanese picture which our imagination does not allow to end with the margin. We aim at the infinite, and when our arrow falls to earth it is in flames...
...House voted (153-to-87) to invoke again the Wartime scale of surtaxes, boosting the rate beyond the $100,000 mark to a maximum levy of 65% on incomes over $5,000,000. Next by a vote of 139-to-103 the coalition knocked out the provision to allow U. S. taxpayers deductions on income taxes paid to foreign governments...
...victorious U. S. flag over the smoke-swathed battleground from a papier mache rock. To the enduring credit of the cast and its producers, who intend to present a series of hardy old-time melodramas, The Round-Up is played with sincerity and as much restraint as the lines allow. A seat for The Round-Up should be worth $1 (top price) to anybody who ever built a tepee in the back yard or wore a cowboy suit...