Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amended, and returned to-the House, the Administration bill authorizing reciprocal taxation of State and Federal Government employes, providing an estimated $16,000,000 additional Federal revenue, a slightly larger amount to the States...
...which (judging by her mail) is 75% feminine. Her writings are important not so much for fortifying those sentiments, as inclining an already sympathetic democracy to side more strongly with its sisters. More important is the degree of action with which Mrs. Roosevelt would back up her sympathies, the amount of martial iron she instills into her women's blood...
...John Nance Garner's Presidential boom was advanced last week by friends who made much of a letter he wrote his partners in the cheap-house business at Uvalde, Tex. Emphasized excerpt: "I suggest that you consider the amount of indebtedness you are accumulating. . . . 'It is not wise to bite off too much in the beginning...
...people but the politically sophisticated National Assembly (Senate and Chamber of Deputies). Last week, after Albert Lebrun agreed to run for a second seven-year term-pressed to do so as a gesture of French solidarity against the dictators-the result was a foregone conclusion. Surprising, however, was the amount of opposition which developed...
...definition of standards--provided that these standards are not made absolute and that the Masters are not deprived of a very necessary discretionary slack--is very desirable. But concentration upon criteria alone is a profitless business, for exposition of standards by no means solves the admissions question. A certain amount of injustice and error must be fatalistically accepted. No matter how definite the criteria, and no matter how reasonable, these are, the complexity and the human element involved make imperfection a foregone conclusion...